Micrometeorite

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5356.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5356. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Meteors

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An interplanetary dust particle or a particle ablated from a meteoroid during its passage through the Earth's atmosphere that has not itself burnt up in the atmosphere as a meteor. Particles below a mass of around 1 μg are slowed by collisions with molecules in the upper atmosphere to a speed at which further collisions impart insufficient energy for ablation to occur. Such particles drift down a...

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