The Formation of Lunar Multi-ring Basins
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lins, H. J. Melosh, J. W. Head, D. M. Blair, A. M. Freed, K. Miljković, J. M. Soderblom, M. T. Zuber, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. (*[email protected]). Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401. Dept. Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015