Measurement of the lunar impact record for the past 3.5 b.y. and implications for the Nemesis theory

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 659-665

  Muller, Richard A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STARS;

CIRCULAR ORBIT; ECCENTRIC ORBITS; MEASUREMENTS OF; SUDDEN CHANGE; SYSTEM IMPACT;

ORBITS;

COMET; ECCENTRICITY; LUNAR METEORITE;

EID: 70449554435     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.659     Document Type: Article

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