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2.3.1 Submicron Particles from the Sun

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Curtis L. Hemenway*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik*

Abstract

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A review is given which suggests that cosmic dust theoretical and experimental studies are still beset with uncertainty and inaccuracy. A significant body of interrelated evidence exists which indicates that the solar system has two populations of dust particles, a submicron population generated and emitted by the sun and a larger size population spiraling inward toward the sun. The submicron component may provide the missing coupling mechanism between solar sunspot activity and meteorological activity in the earth’s atmosphere.

Type
2 In Situ Measurements of Interplanetary Dust
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1976

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