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Experiments on Dust Collection for a Cometary Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. Kissel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
B. C. Clark
Affiliation:
Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, U.S.A.
D. Clair
Affiliation:
Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, U.S.A.

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Experiments presently conducted at the Martin Marietta Denver facility to collect cometary dust during a Tempel 2 flyby are reviewed. It is shown that a number of viscid materials are quite suitable to collect particles up to 50 μm diameter at speeds up to 50 m/s. First results are presented for the more complicated setups using nonviscid metal surfaces for the collection of dust. These targets allow the use of surface analysis techniques for a more elaborate chemical analysis of the collected dust particles.

Type
III: The Interplanetary Dust Complex 1. Sources, Evolution, and Dynamics
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980