The 1998 Leonid multi-instrument aircraft campaign-an early review

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 933-943

  Jenniskens, Peter ^a   Butow, Steven J ^a,b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b California Air National Guard ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; METEORITE;

EID: 0033370079     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01411.x     Document Type: Article

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