The NASA lunar impact monitoring program

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 102, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 293-298

  Suggs, Robert M ^a   Cooke, William J ^a   Suggs, Ronnie J ^a   Swift, Wesley R ^a   Hollon, Nicholas ^b,c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b JACOBS TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypervelocity impact testing; Lunar impacts; Meteoroids; Space environments

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; IMPACT; METEOR; MONITORING; MOON;

EID: 41549165352     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11038-007-9184-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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