Cometary dust streams at Mars: Preliminary predictions from meteor streams at Earth and from periodic comets

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 105, Issue E10, 2000, Pages 24571-24581

  Treiman, Allan H ^a   Treiman, Jay S ^b  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMET; DUST; MARS;

EID: 0005108375     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001242     Document Type: Article

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