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Charged Dust Rings in the Outer Planetary Magnetospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Jay R. Hill  and
D. A. Mendis
Jay R. Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Center for Astrophysics and Space Science University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
D. A. Mendis
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Center for Astrophysics and Space Science University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

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In this paper we discuss the motion of charged dust in outer planetary magnetospheres, particularly that of Jupiter. An increase of almost two orders of magnitude in the dust flux was observed as Pioneer 10 approached within about 30 RJ of Jupiter (Humes et al., 1975). Mendis (1978) suggested that this was a result of electrostatic disruption of interplanetary dust entering the Jovian magnetosphere and the subsequent magnetogravitational trapping of the disruption products. Subsequently, we (Hill and Mendis, 1979) have discussed in detail the physical and dynamical processes associated with the entry of interplanetary dust (assumed to be largely fragile aggregates of the Brownlee type) into the Jovian magnetosphere.

Type
V: Particles and Planets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 90: Solid Particles in the Solar System , 1980 , pp. 417 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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