Scaling forces to asteroid surfaces: The role of cohesion

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 968-984

  Scheeres, D J ^a   Hartzell, C M ^a   Sanchez P ^a   Swift, M ^b  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroid Eros; Asteroid Itokawa; Asteroids; Asteroids, Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049531067     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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