Meteoroid impacts on spacecraft: Sporadics, streams, and the 1999 Leonids

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 47, Issue 8-9, 1999, Pages 1005-1013

  McBride, N ^a   McDonnell, J A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000604770     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(99)00023-9     Document Type: Article

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