Could giant impacts cripple core dynamos of small terrestrial planets?

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 920-934

  Arkani Hamed, Jafar ^a,b   Ghods, Abdolreza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

Author keywords

Mars; Mercury; Moon; Planetary dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952899428     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.01.020     Document Type: Article

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