Mega-ejecta on asteroid Vesta

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Jutzi, Martin ^a   Asphaug, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GEOLOGY; NASA; SPACE FLIGHT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CENTER OF MASS; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; IMPACT BASINS; IMPACT MODEL; IMPACTORS; KEY ISSUES; MEAN DIAMETER; NON-INERTIAL FRAME; PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS; REGIONAL SCALE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

ASTEROIDS;

ASTEROID; BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION; DIAMETER; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDFORM; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RESOLUTION; SPACECRAFT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRUST;

EID: 78651289150     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045517     Document Type: Article

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