Asymmetric impacts of near-Earth asteroids on the Moon

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 519, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Ito, T ^a   Malhotra, R ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

methods: numerical; minor planets, asteroids: general; Moon; planets and satellites: surfaces

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; CRATER DISTRIBUTION; DIRECT IMPACT; IMPACTORS; LOW-IMPACT VELOCITY; LUNAR SURFACE; METHODS: NUMERICALS; MINOR PLANETS , ASTEROIDS: GENERALS; NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORBITAL EVOLUTIONS; PLANETS AND SATELLITES; SYNCHRONOUS ROTATION; SYNTHETIC POPULATIONS; TEST PARTICLES; TWO STAGE;

ASTEROIDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLANETS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROJECTILES; SATELLITES; SPHERES;

MOON;

EID: 77956693116     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912901     Document Type: Article

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