IDE spatio-temporal impact fluxes and high time-resolution studies of multi-impact events and long-lived debris clouds

Details IDE spatio-temporal impact fluxes and high time-resolution studies of multi-impact events and long-lived debris clouds IDE spatio-temporal impact fluxes and high time-resolution studies of multi-impact events and long-lived debris clouds

Jan 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992ldef.symp..517m&link_type=abstract

In its LDEF: 69 Months in Space. First Post-Retrieval Symposium, Part 1 p 517-527 (SEE N92-23280 14-99)

Computer Science

Impact Damage, Interplanetary Dust, Long Duration Exposure Facility, Meteoroids, Space Debris, Encounters, Information, Particulates, Populations, Sampling, Spacecraft Components, Time

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The purpose of the Interplanetary Dust Experiment (IDE) on the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) was to sample the cosmic dust environment and to use the spatio-temporal aspect of the experiment to distinguish between the various components of the environment: zodiacal cloud, beta meteoroids, meteor streams, interstellar dust, and orbital debris. It was found that the introduction of precise time and even rudimentary directionality as co-lateral observables in sampling the particulate environment in near-Earth space produces an enormous qualitative improvement in the information content of the impact data. The orbital debris population is extremely clumpy, being dominated by persistent clouds in which the fluxes may rise orders of magnitude above the background. The IDE data suggest a strategy to minimize the damage to sensitive spacecraft components, using the observed characteristics of cloud encounters.

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