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In this work, a new approach to modelling the interior of rubble pile asteroids in hypervelocity impact events has been developed.

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Deller, J. (2017). Discussion. In: Hyper-Velocity Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroids. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47985-9_5

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