Contemporary interstellar meteoroids in the solar system - in situ measurements and clues on composition
Meteoroids originating from the local interstellar medium, traverse the solar system. This has been proven by in situ measurements by interplanetary spacecraft as well as highly sensitive radar measurements. Early attempts to detect interstellar meteoroids using the instruments on board the Pioneer...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0109345 2023-05-15T17:04:14+02:00 Contemporary interstellar meteoroids in the solar system - in situ measurements and clues on composition Landgraf, M. 2001 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0109345 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109345 unknown arXiv Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2001 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0109345 2022-04-01T16:45:34Z Meteoroids originating from the local interstellar medium, traverse the solar system. This has been proven by in situ measurements by interplanetary spacecraft as well as highly sensitive radar measurements. Early attempts to detect interstellar meteoroids using the instruments on board the Pioneer 8 and 9 spacecraft failed. More sensitive detectors on board the joint ESA/NASA mission Ulysses as well as on board the NASA spacecraft Galileo, however, unambiguously detected meteoroids of interstellar origin. This discovery has started efforts to compare the results from the in situ measurements with highly sophisticated models of interstellar dust properties derived from astronomical absorption and extinction measurements. It was found that, at least locally, is more mass locked up in meteoroids than expected from the astronomical measurements. So far the in situ measurements only allow to derive composition information indirectly via the meteoroid's dynamics. : 6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, to appear in the proceedings of the Meteoroids 2001 conference in Kiruna, Sweden, 6-10 August 2001 Report Kiruna DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Kiruna |
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Meteoroids originating from the local interstellar medium, traverse the solar system. This has been proven by in situ measurements by interplanetary spacecraft as well as highly sensitive radar measurements. Early attempts to detect interstellar meteoroids using the instruments on board the Pioneer 8 and 9 spacecraft failed. More sensitive detectors on board the joint ESA/NASA mission Ulysses as well as on board the NASA spacecraft Galileo, however, unambiguously detected meteoroids of interstellar origin. This discovery has started efforts to compare the results from the in situ measurements with highly sophisticated models of interstellar dust properties derived from astronomical absorption and extinction measurements. It was found that, at least locally, is more mass locked up in meteoroids than expected from the astronomical measurements. So far the in situ measurements only allow to derive composition information indirectly via the meteoroid's dynamics. : 6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, to appear in the proceedings of the Meteoroids 2001 conference in Kiruna, Sweden, 6-10 August 2001 |
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Contemporary interstellar meteoroids in the solar system - in situ measurements and clues on composition |
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Contemporary interstellar meteoroids in the solar system - in situ measurements and clues on composition |
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