Atmospheric entry heating of cosmic dust

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Nov 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987asee....1.....f&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Johnson Space Center, NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, 1987, Volume 1 20 p (SEE N88-14855 06-85)

Computer Science

Aerodynamic Heating, Atmospheric Entry, Computerized Simulation, Cosmic Dust, Deceleration, Micrometeoroids, Atmospheric Density, Clouds, Earth Atmosphere, Gravitational Effects, Grazing Incidence, Velocity Distribution

Scientific paper

A computer simulation of the atmospheric entry deceleration and heating for micrometeorites into a planetary atmosphere was developed. The results of this model were compared to an earlier model. The major difference between the extent of heating experienced in the two models results from an underestimation of the atmospheric density at altitudes above 130 km in the earlier model. Thus the earlier model systematically overestimates the peak temperature reached on atmospheric entry. The discrepancies are small for near vertical entry and/or high density particles, where little deceleration is experienced at high altitudes. For particles entering at grazing incidence and/or of low density the discrepancies are more pronounced. Gravitational enhancement, which is a function of geocentric velocity at the collection opportunity, was found to bias near Earth cosmic dust collections in favor of low velocity particles. The effect is to increase the proportion of low velocity dust, predominately from asteroids, in the stratospheric cosmic dust collections and on Earth orbiting spacecraft impact surfaces over its proportion in the interplanetary dust cloud.

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