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Plasma Emission from High Velocity Impacts of Microparticles Onto Water Ice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Collisions of icy objects play a major role in the outer solar system. The purpose of this investigation is the experimental study of plasma production by dust impacts on icy surfaces. Impact speeds ranged from 3 to 60 km/s. It was found that the dominant ion species which were released are both positive and negative water clusters. The impact charge yield from icy surfaces is approximately a factor 100 below that from previously studied gold surfaces.
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- Circumplanetary Dust: Collisional and Electrostatic Processes
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 126: Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust , 1991 , pp. 375 - 378
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1991
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