Discovery of nuclear tracks in interplanetary dust

Details Discovery of nuclear tracks in interplanetary dust Discovery of nuclear tracks in interplanetary dust

Dec 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984sci...226.1432b&link_type=abstract

Science (ISSN 0036-8075), vol. 226, Dec. 21, 1984, p. 1432-1434. Research supported by McCrone Associates, Inc.

Physics

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Interplanetary Medium, Micrometeoroids, Particle Tracks, Solar System, Chondrites, Electron Microscopy, Interplanetary Dust, Nuclear Particles, Solar Flares

Scientific paper

Nuclear tracks have been identified in interplanetary dust particles (IDP's) collected from the stratosphere. The presence of tracks unambiguously confirms the extraterrestrial nature of IDP's, and the high track densities (10 to the 10th to 10 to the 11th per square centimeter) suggest an exposure age of approximately 10,000 years within the inner solar system. Tracks also provide an upper temperature limit for the heating of IDP's during atmospheric entry, thereby making it possible to distinguish between pristine and thermally modified micrometeorites.

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