Distribution of Impact Locations and Velocities of Earth Meteorites on the Moon

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-54

  Armstrong, John C ^a  

^a WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lunar impacts; Meteorite transfer; Meteorites; Orbital dynamics

Indexed keywords

IMPACT; MAPPING; METEORITE; MODELING; MOON;

EID: 79952443285     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11038-010-9355-2     Document Type: Article

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