Prevalence of earth-like planets

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 617-620

  Owen, Tobias C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; ORBITS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SATELLITES;

BIOGENIC ELEMENTS; ICY PLANETESIMALS; STARS;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 0343279998     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(00)00022-9     Document Type: Article

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