Stardust Wild 2 Dust Measurements

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Jan 2007

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Workshop on Dust in Planetary Systems (ESA SP-643). September 26-30 2005, Kauai, Hawaii. Editors: Krueger, H. and Graps, A., p.3

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During its passage through the coma of comet 81P/Wild 2 in January 2004 to collect dust particles for return to the Earth, instruments on Stardust made extensive measurements of the dust coma environment. The inner coma was characterized by many narrow jets, imaged by the Navigation Camera. Dust fluxes measured by the Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI) revealed a highly non-uniform spatial distribution, with short duration bursts of impacts implying localized spatial density changes of orders of magnitude on scales of less than a km as well as a second period of high activity ~4000 km from the nucleus where almost 80% of the detected impacts occurred. The Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA) obtained 29 dust impact mass spectra near closest approach. The spacecraft Attitude Control System (ACS) detected one event attributable to a large particle impact.

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