Quantitative meteor spectroscopy: Elemental abundances

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 491-512

  Jenniskens, P ^a  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet 55P Tempel Tuttle; Cosmic dust; Elemental abundances; Interplanetary dust; Leonids; Meteor; Meteor spectroscopy; Meteoroids

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DUST; EARTH (PLANET); EVAPORATION; GAS MIXTURES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

COMET 55P/TEMPEL-TUTTLE; COSMIC DUST; ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES; INTERPLANETARY DUST; METEOR; METEOR SPECTROSCOPY;

METEORITES;

EID: 34248173941     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.03.040     Document Type: Article

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