A technique for calculating meteor plasma density and meteoroid mass from radar head echo scattering

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-52

  Close, S ^a,b   Oppenheim, M ^b   Hunt, S ^a,b   Coster, A ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteoroids; Meteors; Radar; Radio observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842427974     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.11.018     Document Type: Article

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