Impact crater formed on sintered snow surface simulating porous icy bodies

Icarus

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Arakawa, Masahiko ^a   Yasui, Minami ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cratering; Ices, Mechanical properties; Impact processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052695827     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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