Archaeology of the asteroid belt

John Chambers
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John Chambers: Carnegie Institution for Science, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA. chambers@dtm.ciw.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7258, 963-964

Abstract: The size of asteroids in the Solar System's main asteroid belt may help constrain one of the least-understood aspects of planet formation — the transition from pebble-sized dust balls to mountain-sized planetesimals.

Date: 2009
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