Discovery of Jovian dust streams and interstellar grains by the Ulysses spacecraft

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 1993 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 362, pages 428-430 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: E. Grün; H. A. Zook; M. Baguhl; A. Balogh; S. J. Bame; H. Fechtig; R. Forsyth; +16 Authors

doi: 10.1038/362428a0

Discovery of Jovian dust streams and interstellar grains by the Ulysses spacecraft

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Within 1 AU from Jupiter, the dust detector aboard the Ulysses spacecraft during the flyby on February 8, 1992 recorded periodic bursts of submicron dust particles with durations ranging from several hours to two days and occurring at about monthly intervals. These particles arrived at Ulysses in collimate streams radiating from close to the line-of-sight direction to Jupiter, suggesting a Jovian origin for the periodic bursts. Ulysses also detected a flux of micron-sized dust particles moving in high-velocity retrograde orbits. These grains are identified here as being of interstellar origin.

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