Meteoroid ablation processes in Titan's atmosphere

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Jun 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990natur.345..511i&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 345, June 7, 1990, p. 511, 512.

Computer Science

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Ablation, Aerosols, Atmospheric Chemistry, Meteoroids, Satellite Atmospheres, Titan, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Ethylene, Methane, Nucleation, Water Vapor, Saturn, Satellites, Titan, Meteoriods, Atmosphere, Ablation, Chemistry, Refractory Material, Aerosols, Nucleation, Volatiles, Ice, Parameters, Oxygen, Altitude, Models, Carbon Monoxide, Stratosphere, Distribution, Origin, Source, Compositon, Theoretical Studies, Interplanetary Dust, Vaporization

Scientific paper

Meteoroids from stray bodies with perihelia of 3 AU or more could be rich in volatile ices and might constitute an important source of oxygen-bearing material in Titan's atmosphere. A simple model of meteoroid ablation is used here to calculate that altitude profiles of material introduced by ablation from both icy and rocky meteoroids. The source region of oxygen-bearing molecules is found to lie between 600 and 800 km altitude. On earth, by comparison, most of the meteoritic material evaporates between 80 and 100 km.

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