Analysis of a "flickering" Geminid fireball

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1045-1051

  Beech, Martin ^a   Illingworth, Alison ^a   Murray, Ian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; MASS; METEORITE; RADIOMETER;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 0344961291     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00297.x     Document Type: Article

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