The thermal history of interplanetary dust particles collected in the Earth's stratosphere

Details The thermal history of interplanetary dust particles collected in the Earth's stratosphere The thermal history of interplanetary dust particles collected in the Earth's stratosphere

Dec 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993metic..28..675n&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 28, no. 5, p. 675-681

Mathematics

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Asteroids, Comets, Helium, Interplanetary Dust, Neon, Solar Flares, Space Temperature, Stratosphere, Mass Spectrometers, Temperature Effects, Thermocouples

Scientific paper

Fragments of 24 individual interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) collected in the Earth's stratosphere were obtained from NASA's Johnson Space Center collection and subjected to pulse-heating sequences to extract He and Ne and to learn about the thermal history of the particles. A motivation for the investigation was to see if the procedure would help distinguish between IDPs of asteroidal and cometary origin. The use of a sequence of short-duration heat pulses to perform the extractions is an improvement over the employment of a step-heating sequence, as was used in a previous investigation. The particles studied were fragments of larger parent IDPs, other fragments of which, in coordinated experiments, are undergoing studies of elemental and mineralogical composition in other laboratories. While the present investigation will provide useful temperature history data for the particles, the relatively large size of the parent IDPs (approximately 40 micrometers in diameter) resulted in high entry deceleration temperatures. This limited the usefulness of the study for distinguishing between particles of asteroidal and cometary origin.

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