Determination of the meteoroid velocity distribution at the Earth using high-gain radar

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 34-42

  Hunt, S M ^a,b   Oppenheim, M ^b   Close, S ^a,b   Brown, P G ^c   McKeen, F ^a   Minardi, M ^d  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteoroid velocity distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842480421     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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