Implications of small comets for the noble gas inventories of Earth and Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3113-3116

  Swindle, Timothy D ^a   Kring, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); SUN; ARGON; ASTROPHYSICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; KRYPTON; PLANETS; SOLAR SYSTEM; XENON;

COLD REGIONS; CURRENT FLUX; JUPITERS; SOURCE REGION;

INERT GASES; SPACE RESEARCH;

SMALL COMETS;

ARGON; ATMOSPHERE; KRYPTON; SMALL COMET HYPOTHESIS; XENON;

EID: 0031390930     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03216     Document Type: Article

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