Doppler Studies of Near-Antapex UHF Radar Micrometeors

Icarus

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 347-353

  Janches, D ^a   Mathews, J D ^a   Meisel, D D ^a,b   Getman, V S ^a   Zhou, Q H ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Arecibo Observatory   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Meteoroids; Meteors; Orbits; Radar

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000027250     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6257     Document Type: Article

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