The Canyon Diablo impact event: 2. Projectile fate and target melting upon impact

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 805-829

  Artemieva, Natalia ^a,b   Pierazzo, Elisabetta ^a  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 79958846282     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01195.x     Document Type: Article

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