Accretion rate of cosmic spherules measured at the South Pole

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6679, 1998, Pages 899-903

  Taylor, Susan ^a   Lever, James H ^a   Harvey, Ralph P ^b  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEORITE; MICROMETEORITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; METEOROIDS; WATER;

ANTARCTICA, SOUTH POLE;

ASTEROIDEA; SPHERULES;

EID: 0032580170     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/31894     Document Type: Article

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