Constraining the luminous efficiency of meteors

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 877-884

  Gritsevich, Maria ^a,b,c   Koschny, Detlef ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Impact processes; Meteors; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952900727     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.01.033     Document Type: Article

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