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15 - Dawn at Vesta: Paradigms and Paradoxes

from Part Three - Asteroids as Records of Formation and Differentiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2017

By
Carol A. Raymond ,
Christopher T. Russell  and
Harry Y. McSween
Edited by
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton  and
Benjamin P. Weiss
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Benjamin P. Weiss
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Planetesimals
Early Differentiation and Consequences for Planets
 , pp. 321 - 339
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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