Lightcurves of 1999 Leonid impact flashes on the moon

Icarus

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-38

  Yanagisawa, Masahisa ^a   Kisaichi, Narumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact processes; Meteoroids; Meteors; Moon; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036752081     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6931     Document Type: Article

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