Formation age of the lunar crater Giordano Bruno

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1115-1120

  Morota, Tomokatsu ^a   Haruyama, Junichi ^a   Miyamoto, Hideaki ^b   Honda, Chikatoshi ^c   Ohtake, Makiko ^a   Yokota, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsunaga, Tsuneo ^d   Hirata, Naru ^c   Demura, Hirohide ^c   Takeda, Hiroshi ^e   Ogawa, Yoshiko ^c   Kimura, Jun ^f  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 72449198489     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb01211.x     Document Type: Article

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