Dust Measurements During Galileo's Approach to Jupiter and lo Encounter

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Oct 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996sci...274..399g&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 274, Issue 5286, pp. 399-401

Physics

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About a hundred dust impacts per day were detected during the first week in December 1995 by Galileo during its approach to Jupiter. These impacts were caused by submicrometer-sized particles that were just above the detection limit. After the closest approach to Io on 7 December, impacts of these small particles ceased. This effect is expected for dust grains emitted from Io that exit the field of view of the instrument after the flyby. The impact rate of bigger micrometer-sized dust grains continued to increase toward Jupiter. These dust particles are in orbit about Jupiter or are interplanetary grains that are gravitationally concentrated near Jupiter.

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