Possible extra-Solar-System cause for certain lunar seismic events

Icarus

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-28

  Frohlich, Cliff ^a   Nakamura, Yosio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Geophysics; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749435968     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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