Anthropic selection for the moon's mass

Astrobiology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 460-468

  Waltham, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropic selection; Climate change; Earth Moon system

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144280231     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2004.4.460     Document Type: Article

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