Dark matter as a trigger for periodic comet impacts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 16, 2014, Pages

  Randall, Lisa ^a   Reece, Matthew ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; METEOR IMPACTS;

DISK SURFACES; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; METEORITE IMPACT; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; SHORT TIME INTERVALS; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE; TIDAL EFFECTS; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

GALAXIES;

EID: 84899097488     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.161301     Document Type: Article

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