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On recent lunar atmosphere

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Two independent kinds of lunar expedition data are considered which put forward some strong theoretical evidence of the existence of a considerable atmosphere on the Moon during the greater part of its history. The transformation of a meteoritic flux when passing through an arbitrary atmosphere has been analysed and tentative estimates of the lunar atmospheric power presented.

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Chernyak, Y. On recent lunar atmosphere. Nature 273, 497–501 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/273497a0

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