Asteroid age distributions determined by space weathering and collisional evolution models

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 504-510

  Willman, Mark ^a   Jedicke, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650953059     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.08.022     Document Type: Article

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