Asteroid families: Open problems

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1075-1086

  Cellino, A ^a   Dell'Oro, A ^a   Zappala V ^a  

^a OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asteroid collisional evolution; Asteroid families; Catastrophic impacts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADIATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ASTEROID FAMILIES; ASTEROIDS COLLISIONAL EVOLUTION; CATASTROPHIC IMPACTS; RESONANT ORBITS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 6444232892     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2004.07.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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