Interplanetary Dust
Abstract
This is a handbook on the physics of interplanetary dust, a topic of interest not only to astronomers and space scientists but also to engineers. The following topics are covered in the book: historical perspectives; cometary dust; near-Earth environment; meteoroids and meteors; properties of interplanetary dust, information from collected samples; in situ measurements of cosmic dust; numerical modeling of the Zodiacal Cloud structure; synthesis of observations; instrumentation; physical processes; optical properties of interplanetary dust; orbital evolution of interplanetary dust; circumplanetary dust, observations and simple physics; interstellar dust and circumstellar dust disks.
- Publication:
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Interplanetary Dust
- Pub Date:
- 2001
- Bibcode:
- 2001indu.book.....G
- Keywords:
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- Cosmic Dust;
- Interplanetary Dust;
- Meteors