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Effect of the Solar Wind on the Lunar Atmosphere

Jackson R. Herring, Alan Licht

Science · 1959 · 19 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

The extent of the lunar atmosphere is severely limited by collision with the protons of the solar wind.

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Heat conductivity and nature of the lunar surface material

A. J. Wesselink · Leiden Repository (Leiden University) · 1948 · 103 citations · Full text

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Radio Observations of a Lunar Occultation of the Crab Nebula

C. H. Costain, B. Elsmore, G. R. Whitfield · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1956 · 21 citations

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Lunar Occultation of a Radio Star and the Derivation of an Upper Limit for the Density of the Lunar Atmosphere

B. Elsmore, G. R. Whitfield · Nature · 1955 · 17 citations

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Possible Sources of a Lunar Atmosphere

W.F. Edwards, L. B. Borst · Science · 1958 · 17 citations

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Density of the Lunar Atmosphere

Nature · 1956 · 11 citations · Full text

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