Constraints on the flux of meteoritic and cometary water on the Moon from volatile element (N-Ar) analyses of single lunar soil grains, Luna 24 core

Icarus

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 220-229

  Füri, Evelyn ^a   Marty, Bernard ^a   Assonov, Sergey S ^b,c  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

^b VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretion; Cosmochemistry; Moon, Surface; Regoliths; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855813664     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.037     Document Type: Article

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