Mineralogical and chemical composition and cosmic-ray exposure history of two mesosiderites and two iron meteorites

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 617-628

  Terribilini, Dario ^a   Eugster, Otto ^a   Mittlefehldt, David W ^b   Diamond, Larryn W ^a,e   Vogt, Stephan ^c,f   Wang, Daode ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^f INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMOCHEMISTRY; IRON METEORITE; MESOSIDERITE; METEORITE; MINERALOGY;

EID: 0034042074     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01442.x     Document Type: Article

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