Meteoritic dust from the atmospheric disintegration of a large meteoroid

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7054, 2005, Pages 1132-1135

  Klekociuk, Andrew R ^a   Brown, Peter G ^b   Pack, Dee W ^c   ReVelle, Douglas O ^d   Edwards, W N ^b   Spalding, Richard E ^e   Tagliaferri, Edward ^c   Yoo, Bernard B ^c   Zagari, Joseph ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; COAGULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL; METEOROIDS; MICROMETRE-SIZED PARTICLES;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERE; METEORITE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; DUST; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; SMOKE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 24144443519     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03881     Document Type: Article

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