Impacts onto H2O ice: Scaling laws for melting, vaporization, excavation, and final crater size

Icarus

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 724-738

  Kraus, Richard G ^a   Senft, Laurel E ^a   Stewart, Sarah T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Ices; Impact processes; Planetary formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051473370     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.016     Document Type: Article

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