The Leonid Meteor Shower and the Lunar Sodium Atmosphere

Icarus

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 298-303

  Hunten, D M ^a   Cremonese, G ^b   Sprague, A L ^a   Hill, R E ^a   Verani, S ^c   Kozlowski, R W H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Dipartimento di Astronomia   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001744590     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6023     Document Type: Article

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