Catastrophic disruption of asteroids and family formation: A review of numerical simulations including both fragmentation and gravitational reaccumulations

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1109-1117

  Michel, Patrick ^a   Benz, Willy ^b   Richardson, Derek C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids composition; Asteroids dynamics; Collisional physics; Impact processes

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORBITS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLANETS; PROJECTILES; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSORS;

ASTEROIDS COMPOSITION; ASTEROIDS DYNAMICS; COLLISIONAL PHYSICS; IMPACT PROCESSES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 6444242299     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2004.07.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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