Impacts as sources of the exosphere on Mercury

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 511-522

  Berezhnoy, Alexey A ^a,b   Klumov, Boris A ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

atmosphere; Impact processes; Mercury; Photochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249103865     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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