Visual observations of the Perseid meteor shower 1988-1994

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 585-593

  Rendtel, Jürgen ^a   Brown, Peter ^a,b  

^a International Meteor Organization   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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EID: 0040803108     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(97)00029-9     Document Type: Review

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