Micrometeorites and Their implications for meteors

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 102, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 525-535

  Genge, Matthew J ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroid; Comet; Meteors; Micrometeorites

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMET; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; METEOR; MICROMETEORITE; MINERALOGY; TEXTURE;

SPHERULES;

EID: 41549153476     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11038-007-9185-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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