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On dust emissions from the jovian systemAs described by Gruen et al., the dust impact detector on the Ulysses spacecraft detected a totally unexpected series of dust streams in the outer solar system near the orbit of Jupiter. Five considerations lead us to believe that the dust streams emanate from the jovian system itself: the dust streams only occur within about 1 AU of the jovian system, with the strongest stream being the one closest to Jupiter (about 550 R(sub J) away); the direction from which they arrive is never far from the line-of-sight direction to Jupiter; the time period between streams is about 28 (+/- 3) days; the impact velocities are very high--mostly around 40 km/s; and we can think of no cometary, asteroidal, or interstellar source that could give rise to the above four phenomena (such streams have never before been detected).
Document ID
19940016436
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Zook, H. A.
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Gruen, E.
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg, Germany)
Baguhl, M.
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg, Germany)
Balogh, A.
(Imperial Coll. of Science and Technology London, United Kingdom)
Bame, S. J.
(Los Alamos National Lab. NM., United States)
Fechtig, H.
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg, Germany)
Forsyth, R.
(Imperial Coll. of Science and Technology London, United Kingdom)
Hanner, M. S.
(Jet Propulsion Lab. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena., United States)
Horanyi, M.
(Colorado Univ. Boulder., United States)
Kissel, J.
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg, Germany)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: N-Z
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
94N20909
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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