The first confirmed Perseid lunar impact flash

Icarus

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 489-495

  Yanagisawa, Masahisa ^a   Ohnishi, Kouji ^b   Takamura, Yuzaburo ^c   Masuda, Hiroshi ^c   Sakai, Yoshihito ^d   Ida, Miyoshi ^e   Adachi, Makoto ^e   Ishida, Masayuki ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NAGANO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Ichinomiya High School   (Japan)

^d Ogawa Observatory   (Japan)

^e Dynic Astronomical Observatory   (Japan)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Impact processes; Meteoroids; Meteors; Moon; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747337018     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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