Have mirror micrometeorites been detected?

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Foot, R ^a   Mitra, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 0344062753     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.071901     Document Type: Article

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