Meteor storm evidence against the recent formation of lunar crater Giordano Bruno

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 525-529

  Withers, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; HISTORICAL RECORD; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LUNAR METEORITE; MOON;

EID: 0035309288     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2001.tb01894.x     Document Type: Article

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