Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

620 Encyclopedia of the Solar System concentration) as a function of depth and as a function of ro- tational phase over the surf ...

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622 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 1 A wedge of interplanetary dust. The dusk twilight sky (pink) toward the northwest ...

Solar System Dust 623 FIGURE 2 Interplanetary dust particles collected in the stratosphere by NASA’s cosmic dust program. Three ...

624 Encyclopedia of the Solar System TABLE 1 Major Meteor Showers, Date of Shower Maximum, Radiant in Celestial Coordinates, Geo ...

Solar System Dust 625 FIGURE 4 An unusually strong meteor shower (Leonid) was observed on 17 November 1966. The meteor trails se ...

626 Encyclopedia of the Solar System TABLE 2 Average Elemental Composition (All Major and Selected Minor and Trace Elements) of ...

Solar System Dust 627 solar radii; others have not seen a sharp edge. Perhaps the inner edge of the zodiacal cloud may change in ...

628 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 6 Cumulative flux of interplanetary meteoroids on a spinning flat plate at 1 AU dist ...

Solar System Dust 629 FIGURE 7 TheCassinicosmic dust analyzer consists of two types of dust detectors—the high rate detector (HR ...

630 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 8 Flux of meteoroids with masses> 8 × 10 −^10 kg (about 10μm in size) in the oute ...

Solar System Dust 631 and the extended E ring have been identified as sources. The ejection mechanism is very similar to that ac ...

632 Encyclopedia of the Solar System 3. Dynamics and Evolution 3.1 Gravity and Keplerian Orbits In the planetary system, solar g ...

Solar System Dust 633 reducing its orbital energy. This effect is called Poynting– Robertson effect. As a consequence of this dr ...

634 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 13 Charging processes of meteoroids in interplanetary space. UV radiation releases p ...

Solar System Dust 635 TABLE 4 Comparison of Various Forces Acting on Dust Particles of SizesUnder Typical Interplanetary Conditi ...

636 Encyclopedia of the Solar System extrasolar systems will bring new insights to zodiacal clouds around other stars. Interplan ...

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638 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 1 Chandramontage of solar system X-ray sources. Clockwise, from upper left: Chandrai ...

X-Rays in the Solar System 639 FIGURE 2 Earth’s aurora. Polar satellite observation on July 31, (a) UVI and (b, c) PIXIE images ...