Progress in defining the solar wind sputter rate on protoplanets and interplanetary matter

Details Progress in defining the solar wind sputter rate on protoplanets and interplanetary matter Progress in defining the solar wind sputter rate on protoplanets and interplanetary matter

May 1980

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Planetary and Space Science, vol. 28, May 1980, p. 511-524. Research supported by the Science Research Council.

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Erosion, Interplanetary Medium, Planetary Surfaces, Protoplanets, Solar Wind, Sputtering, Asteroids, Computerized Simulation, Lunar Surface, Mathematical Models, Regolith, Solar Orbits, Surface Roughness Effects, Topography

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Solar wind sputtering of exposed surfaces in heliocentric orbits is considered for bodies ranging in size from planets down to micrometeoroids. Erosion rates derived from Apollo sample lunar regolith studies are presented together with the results of computer modelling of surface topographical alteration in order to characterize the sputter erosion process on Solar System bodies bombarded by the solar wind. The consensus of recent measurements leads to a rate of between 0.025 to 0.045 A/yr near the lunar equator.

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