The origin of organic matter in the Martian meteorite ALH84001

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 477-488

  Becker, Luann ^a   Popp, Brian ^a   Rust, Terri ^a   Bada, Jeffrey L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARTIAN METEORITE; ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 0033401192     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00090-3     Document Type: Article

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