Opportunities for the stratospheric collection of dust from short-period comets

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1491-1505

  Messenger, Scott ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMET; INTERPLANETARY DUST; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0036865051     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00806.x     Document Type: Article

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