Modeling an enhancement of the lunar sodium tail during the Leonid meteor shower of 1998

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1645-1648

  Wilson, Jody K ^a   Smith, Steven M ^a   Baumgardner, Jeffrey ^a   Mendillo, Michael ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; METEOR IMPACTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOON; SODIUM; VAPORIZATION;

LEONID METEOR; LUNAR SODIUM TAIL; METEOR SHOWER; MICROMETEOR IMPACT VAPORIZATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

METEORITE;

EID: 0033563632     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900313     Document Type: Article

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