Earth encounters as the origin of fresh surfaces on near-Earth asteroids

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7279, 2010, Pages 331-334

  Binzel, Richard P ^a,b   Morbidelli, Alessandro ^c   Merouane, Sihane ^d   Demeo, Francesca E ^d   Birlan, Mirel ^b   Vernazza, Pierre ^e   Thomas, Cristina A ^f   Rivkin, Andrew S ^g   Bus, Schelte J ^h   Tokunaga, Alan T ^h  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COLLISION; METEORITE; MOON; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIDAL POWER; WEATHER;

EID: 75149161616     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08709     Document Type: Article

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