Transverse halo orbits about Mars?

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Jul 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30m..13h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 13, pp. 13-1, CiteID 1680, DOI 10.1029/2003GL017677

Physics

Planetology: Solar System Objects: Mars, Planetology: Solar System Objects: Planetary Rings

Scientific paper

We predict a new family of charged dust rings about Mars, transverse to the ecliptic plane. These orbits are stable to the perturbations of planetary oblateness, Mars' orbital motion, and the solar wind. Lifetimes of individual orbits are limited primarily by the Lorentz force and Poynting-Robertson drag, and may exceed 1000 years. They may be populated via collisions of micrometeoroids with one of the martian moons. Some of these small (<~1 μm) grains may be detected by the dust detector on board the Nozomi spacecraft now en route to Mars.

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