An empirical model for transient crater growth in granular targets based on direct observations

Icarus

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 310-319

  Yamamoto, Satoru ^a   Barnouin Jha, Olivier S ^b   Toriumi, Takashi ^c   Sugita, Seiji ^d   Matsui, Takafumi ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collisional physics; Cratering; Impact processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749117400     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.04.019     Document Type: Article

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