Thermal and impact histories of reheated group IVA, IVB, and ungrouped iron meteorites and their parent asteroids

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1227-1252

  Yang, J ^a,b   Goldstein, J I ^a   Scott, E R D ^c   Michael, J R ^d   Kotula, P G ^d   Pham, T ^a   Mccoy, T J ^e  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b Carl Zeiss Vision Inc USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 80052944874     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01210.x     Document Type: Article

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