Meteor head echo radar data: Mass-velocity selection effects

Icarus

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 547-556

  Close, S ^a   Brown, P ^b   Campbell Brown, M ^b   Oppenheim, M ^c   Colestock, P ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteors; Radio observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846329812     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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