Selected Publications and Preprints

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Crater Chains on the Earth and Moon:

• Bottke, W. F., D. C. Richardson, and S. G. Love (1997) Can tidal disruption of asteroids make crater chains on the Earth and Moon? Icarus 126, 470-474.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

Production of Small Asteroids by Planetary Tidal Forces:

• Bottke, W. F., D. C. Richardson, and S. G. Love (1997) Production of Tunguska-sized bodies by Earth's tidal forces. Planetary and Space Science, in press.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

Binary Asteroids and the Formation of Doublet Craters:

• Bottke, W. F., & H. J. Melosh (1996) The formation of asteroid satellites and doublet craters by planetary tidal forces. Nature 381, 51-53.

  	The press release for my Nature paper can be found here

• Bottke, W. F., & H. J. Melosh (1996) Binary asteroids and the formation of doublet craters. Icarus 124, 372-391.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

  
  

• Cook, C., H. J. Melosh, and W. F. Bottke (1996). Doublet craters on Venus. Submitted to Icarus.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

  
  

• Melosh, H. J., J. Ingram, and W. F. Bottke (1996). The abundance of doublet craters on Mars. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVII. in press. (also in preparation for Icarus)

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

Origin of the Spacewatch Small Earth-Approaching Asteroids:

• Bottke, W. F., M. C. Nolan, H. J. Melosh, A. M. Vickery, and R. Greenberg. (1996) Origin of the Spacewatch small Earth-approaching asteroids. Icarus, 122, 406-427.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

  
  

• Bottke, W. F., M. C. Nolan, H. J. Melosh, A. M. Vickery, and R. Greenberg. (1996) Provenance of the Spacewatch small Earth-approaching asteroids. In "Completing the Inventory of the Solar System". (Eds. T. Rettig and J Hahn) ASP Conference Series, Vol. 107, 3-11.

  
  

The Collisional and Dynamical Evolution of Ida:

• Greenberg, R., W. F. Bottke, M. C. Nolan, J.-M. Petit, P. Geissler, D. Durda. (1996) Collisional and dynamical history of Ida. Icarus 120, 106-118.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

  
  

• Geissler, P., J.-M. Petit, D. Durda, R. Greenberg, W. F. Bottke, M. C. Nolan, and J. Moore. (1996) Erosion and ejecta reaccretion on 243 Ida and its moon. Icarus 120, 140-157.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

The Collisional Evolution of Gaspra:

• Greenberg, R., M. C. Nolan, W. F. Bottke, and R. A. Kolvoord. (1994) Collisional history of Gaspra. Icarus, 107, 84-97.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

Hazards to the Earth from Comets and Asteroids:

• Bottke, W. F., M. C. Nolan, R. Greenberg, and R. A. Kolvoord. (1995) Collisional lifetimes and impact statistics of near-Earth asteroids. In Hazard Due to Comets and Asteroids, (T. Gehrels, M. S. Matthews, Eds.) University of Arizona Press, 337-357.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

Asteroid Collisions:

• Bottke, W. F., M. C. Nolan, R. A. Kolvoord, and R. Greenberg. (1994) Velocity distribution among colliding asteroids. Icarus, 107, 255-268.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

  
  

• Bottke, W. F. and R. Greenberg. (1993) Asteroidal collision probabilities. Geophys. Res. Letters, 20, 879-881.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

Planet Formation:

• Bottke, W. F., R. Greenberg, A. Carusi, and G. B. Valsecchi. (1997) Mapping the effects of distant perturbations of particle-planet interactions. Icarus 125, 288-301.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

  
  

• Greenberg, R., W. F. Bottke, G. B. Valsecchi, and A. Carusi. (1991) Planetary accretion rates: analytical derivation. Icarus, 94, 98-111.

  	The abstract for this paper can be browsed here

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