Distant lunar sodium tail observed in the Japanese local-time sector during the Leonid meteor shower of 1998

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 105, Issue E10, 2000, Pages 24621-24626

  Shiokawa, K ^a   Ejiri, M K ^a   Ogawa, T ^a   Nakamura, T ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEORITE; MOON;

EID: 0034502226     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001243     Document Type: Article

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