Age and origin of the moon

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5340, 1997, Pages 1098-1103

  Lee, Der Chuen ^a   Halliday, Alex N ^a   Snyder, Gregory A ^b   Taylor, Lawrence A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; HAFNIUM/TUNGSTEN DATING;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FRACTIONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION;

MOON;

EID: 0030662274     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5340.1098     Document Type: Article

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