Dust environment in the outer Solar System

Details Dust environment in the outer Solar System Dust environment in the outer Solar System

Apr 2003

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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #11631

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Since the discovery of the first Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt (EKB) object in 1992, more than 600 EKB objects have been discovered so far. Collisions among EKB objects could produce a significant amount of dust in the outer Solar System. Due to interactions with the giant planets, the EKB dust disk has non-uniform distributions in both radial and azimuthal directions. Some of the EKB dust can potentially enter the inner Solar System and be detected by a near-Earth instrument. The existence of an EKB dust disk is also supported by the Pioneer 10 impact measurements out to 18 AU. I will review the dust environment in the outer Solar System and will discuss what to expect for a future dust mission to Pluto/EKB.

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