Some Aspects of Dust-Plasma Interactions in the Solar System
Abstract
Dust and Plasma co-exist in numerous environments in both space and the laboratory. Here we discuss some aspects of dust-plasma interactions in several solar system environments including comet tails, planetary magnetospheres and the terrestrial mesosphere. While dust grains interact with naturally occurring plasmas in the solar system, they can also be a source of plasma as they impact the ambient medium as well as spacecraft, thereby providing another way for their detection. Here we will also address this phenomenon.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2004
- Bibcode:
- 2004AGUFMSH43B..01M
- Keywords:
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- 5737 Magnetospheres (2756);
- 6213 Dust;
- 2700 MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS