Extinction of species by periodic comet showers

Nature

Volumn 308, Issue 5961, 1984, Pages 715-717

  Davis, Marc ^a   Hut, Piet ^b   Muller, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

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EID: 0001568674     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/308715a0     Document Type: Article

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