Aerogel keystones: extraction of complete hypervelocity im- pact events from aerogel collectors
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1 Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 2 Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94035 USA 3 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94035 USA 4 Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94035 USA 5 Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94550 USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2003