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Characterisation, Sources and Flux of Unmelted Micrometeorites on Earth During the Last ~50,000 Years

Dust dominates extraterrestrial flux on the earth (30,000 tonnes/yr), however only ~5% of the cosmic dust survives atmospheric entry which is basically in two forms: melted and unmelted. Melted micrometeorites undergo transformational changes due to heating during atmospheric entry which obliterate...

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Autores principales: Prasad, M. Shyam, Rudraswami, N. G., de Araujo, Agnelo Alexandre, Khedekar, V. D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5995856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29891909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27158-x