Mass loading of planetary magnetospheres by rocky satellites—I: Production of rocky ejecta |
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| Authors: | M Alexander P Anz D Lyons W Tanner Y-L Chen JAM McDonnell |
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| Institution: | Department of Physics, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA;Department of Space Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
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| Abstract: | Recent hypervelocity studies have been conducted which simulate the collision of interplanetary dust with rocky planetary satellite surfaces. Preliminary flux-mass distributions of micron and submicron ejecta from these hypervelocity impact studies have been determined. Several models of the flux-mass distribution of primary interplanetary dust are used to determine ratios of satellite surface ejecta and primary meteoroid flux-mass distributions. The results are used in a second model to determine the ejecta spatial mass densities near the surface of the satellite. |
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