The flux of small near-earth objects colliding with the earth

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6913, 2002, Pages 294-296

  Brown, P ^a,b   Spalding, R E ^c   ReVelle, D O ^b   Tagliaferri, E ^d   Worden, S P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d ET Space Systems   (United States)

^e Peterson AFB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETONATION; DISASTERS; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ASTEROIDS;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTEROID; BOLIDE; COLLISION; IMPACT; POWER LAW;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY; EXPLOSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATMOSPHERE; CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); LIGHT; METEOROIDS; MINOR PLANETS; MOTION; NATURAL DISASTERS; PARTICLE SIZE; SIBERIA; SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0037153126     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01238     Document Type: Article

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