Asteroidal impacts and the origin of terrestrial and lunar volatiles

Icarus

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-52

  Albarede, Francis ^a,b   Ballhaus, Chris ^c   Blichert Toft, Janne ^a,b   Lee, Cin Ty ^b   Marty, Bernard ^d   Moynier, Frédéric ^e   Yin, Qing Zhu ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Composition; Earth; Impact processes; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869398487     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.10.026     Document Type: Article

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