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Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroid Šteins

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Hyper-Velocity Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroids

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In this chapter, the new approach to modelling rubble pile asteroids during impact events is applied to asteroid Šteins.

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    Jakob Deller

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Deller, J. (2017). Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroid Šteins. In: Hyper-Velocity Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroids. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47985-9_4

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