An Estimate of the Age Distribution of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe: Quantifying Metallicity as a Selection Effect

Icarus

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 307-313

  Lineweaver, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cosmochemistry; Extrasolar planets; Planetary formation; Planets; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001303607     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6607     Document Type: Article

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