The importance of the annual meteoroid streams to spacecraft and their detectors

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1513-1516

  McBride, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001151015     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(97)00428-6     Document Type: Article

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