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5.10 Are Interplanetary Grains Crystalline?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S. Drapatz  and
K.W. Michel
S. Drapatz
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 8046 Garching, W.-Germany
K.W. Michel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 8046 Garching, W.-Germany

Abstract

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The optical properties of interplanetary grains depend not only on chemical composition, size, and shape but also on lattice defects. It is argued that practically all sources for the zodiacal dust cloud yield grains with highly disturbed crystal structure. Healing of these defects can occur when the grains are heated in the vicinity of the sun (≤0.1 AU) and various orbits are considered, on which annealed grains with nearly perfect crystal structure can return to larger heliocentric distances to reveal the sharp optical features of cold well-ordered crystals. However, we do not find any processes, which produce healed particles of sufficient number to affect the properties of the general zodiacal cloud. Therefore, the optical properties of interplanetary grains are determined by a high degree of lattice perturbation.

Type
5 Dynamics and Evolution
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 31: Interplanetary Dust and Zodiacal Light , 1976 , pp. 464 - 468
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1976

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