Comets, impacts, and atmospheres

Icarus

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 215-226

  Owen, Tobias ^a   Bar Nun, Akiva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; INERT GAS; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; GAS; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON MONOXIDE; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GASES; JUPITER; MARS; METEOROIDS; NITROGEN; NOBLE GASES; SATURN; VENUS;

EID: 0029420469     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1995.1122     Document Type: Article

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