Scaling of melt production in hypervelocity impacts from high-resolution numerical simulations

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 913-916

  Barr, Amy C ^a   Citron, Robert I ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact processes; Interiors

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650954531     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.022     Document Type: Article

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