The origin and evolution of the asteroid belt-implications for Vesta and Ceres

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 41-61

  O'Brien, David P ^a   Sykes, Mark V ^a  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid Ceres; Asteroid collisional evolution; Asteroid dynamics; Asteroid families; Asteroid vesta; Asteroids; Impacts; Planet formation

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID BELT; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; IMPACTS; PLANET FORMATION;

METEOR IMPACTS; METEORITES;

ASTEROIDS;

EID: 84855681160     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-011-9808-6     Document Type: Article

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