The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk asteroidal impactor

Nature

Volumn 503, Issue 7475, 2013, Pages 235-237

  Borovička, Jiří ^a   Spurný, Pavel ^a   Brown, Peter ^b   Wiegert, Paul ^b   Kalenda, Pavel ^c   Clark, David ^b   Shrbený, Lukáš ^a  

^a ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF ROCK STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRINITROTOLUENE;

ASTEROID; EARTH; ENERGY; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

MARSHALL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TUNGUSKA;

EID: 84887598191     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12671     Document Type: Article

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