Published 1979 | Version v1
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Galatic and solar cosmic ray - produced rare gas isotopes in lunar fines

  • 1. Physical Research Lab., Ahmedabad (India)

Description

Lunar fines 10084, 14163 and 14148 from Apollo 11 and 14 missions as well as 24087 from Soviet Luna 24 mission have been studied for elemental and isotopic composition of He, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe using milligram amounts by step-wise heating techniques. From these studies, the isotopic composition of solar wind has been determined and it is found to be in good agreement with the results reported by other workers. The experimental procedure adopted for studying these samples is described in brief. The use of a gas glass spectrometer for detecting the subtle galatic and solar cosmic ray xenon is explained. Data on the concentration and isotopic composition of selected isotopes of Xe and Ne in lunar fines is presented. (K.B.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Department of Atomic Energy.
Imprint Place
Bombay
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the seminar on mass spectrometry -applications and current trends [held at] Bombay, March 20-22, 1978
Journal Page Range
p. 12-16.

Conference

Title
Seminar on mass spectrometry - applications and current trends.
Dates
20 - 22 Mar 1978.
Place
Bombay, India.

INIS

Country of Publication
India
Country of Input or Organization
India
INIS RN
12583219
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
APOLLO PROJECT; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENT ABUNDANCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; ISOTOPE RATIO; LUNAR MATERIALS; METEORITES; NEON ISOTOPES; SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTION; SOLAR WIND; XENON ISOTOPES
Descriptors DEC
DATA; INFORMATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; QUANTITY RATIO; RADIATIONS; SOLAR ACTIVITY