Noble gases in interplanetary dust particles, I: The excess helium-3 problem and estimates of the relative fluxes of solar wind and solar energetic particles in interplanetary space

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 495-504

  Pepin, R O ^a   Palma, R L ^b   Schlutter, D J ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY DUST; NOBLE GAS; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0034048262     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01431.x     Document Type: Article

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