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Electrostatic Fragmentation of Irregularly Shaped Particles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
An enhancement of the electrostatic stress forces due to the charge concentration on a position with small radius of curvature on the surface of irregularly shaped particle causes the fragmentation of fluffy particle more than expected for a spherical particle. This mechanism may act to produce “dust clusters” as detected in comet P/Halley by Simpson et al. (1987) and also “dust swarms” near the Earth as reported in Fechtig(1982).
- Type
- Circumplanetary Dust: Collisional and Electrostatic Processes
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 126: Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust , 1991 , pp. 371 - 374
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1991