The Canyon Diablo impact event: Projectile motion through the atmosphere

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-42

  Artemieva, Natalia ^a,b   Pierazzo, Elisabetta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 64549161164     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb00715.x     Document Type: Article

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