Discovery of the distant lunar sodium tail and its enhancement following the leonid meteor shower of 1998

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1649-1652

  Smith, S M ^a   Wilson, J K ^a   Baumgardner, J ^a   Mendillo, M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CAMERAS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOON; SODIUM;

DISTANT LUNAR SODIUM TAIL; LEONID METEOR SHOWER; NEUTRAL SODIUM EMISSION;

METEOR IMPACTS;

METEORITE;

EID: 0033563595     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900314     Document Type: Article

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