Solar wind helium, neon, and argon isotopic and elemental composition: Data from the metallic glass flown on NASA's Genesis mission

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 626-645

  Grimberg, Ansgar ^a,b   Baur, Heinrich ^a   Bühler, Fritz ^b   Bochsler, Peter ^b   Wieler, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; FRACTIONATION; HELIUM; HISTOGRAM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEON; SATELLITE MISSION; SIMULATION; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 37449019150     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

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