Split comets and the origin of crater chains on Ganymede and Callisto
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1476-4687
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Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
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[Auszug] If crater chains on Callisto are created by the impact of tidally split comets, a number of testable consequences immediately follow. First, because comets' or asteroids' orbits through the jovian system are generally hyperbolic (Shoemaker-Levy 9 is an exception), the impact of a fragment chain on ...
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