Origin of a partially differentiated Titan

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 858-862

  Barr, Amy C ^a,b   Citron, Robert I ^b,c   Canup, Robin M ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Saturn; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956283360     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.05.028     Document Type: Article

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