Light flashes caused by meteoroid impacts on the lunar surface

Solar System Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-114

  Nemtchinov, I V ^a   Shuvalov, V V ^a   Artem'eva, N A ^a   Ivanov, B A ^a   Kosarev, I B ^a   Trubetskaya, I A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

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