The nature of the Tunguska meteorite

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 723-728

  Bronshten, V A ^a,b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b NONE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COMET; METEORITE; SOURCE ROCK;

EID: 0033371233     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01384.x     Document Type: Article

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