The orbital distribution of Near-Earth Objects inside Earth's orbit

Icarus

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 355-366

  Greenstreet, Sarah ^a   Ngo, Henry ^a,b   Gladman, Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Impact processes; Near Earth Objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455195877     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.010     Document Type: Article

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