Infrasonic detection of a near-Earth object impact over Indonesia on 8 October 2009

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Silber, Elizabeth A ^a   Le Pichon, Alexis ^b   Brown, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST ESTIMATES; GLOBAL IMPACTS; IMPACTORS; INDONESIA; INFRASONIC SIGNALS; INFRASOUND; MONITORING NETWORK; NEAR EARTH OBJECTS; THRESHOLD LEVELS; TUNGUSKA;

EXPLOSIVES;

DETECTION METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFRASONICS; PERTURBATION; SIGNAL; STRATOSPHERE; THRESHOLD;

INDONESIA;

EID: 79959725088     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047633     Document Type: Article

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