A hit-and-run giant impact scenario

Icarus

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 296-299

  Reufer, Andreas ^a   Meier, Matthias M M ^b,c   Benz, Willy ^a   Wieler, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collisional physics; Moon; Satellites, Formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866752568     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.07.021     Document Type: Article

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