The Perseid meteoroid stream: Characterization of recent activity from visual observations

Icarus

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 414-428

  Brown, P ^a,b   Rendtel, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b International Meteor Organization   (Germany)

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EID: 0030525330     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0219     Document Type: Article

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