Micron-sized dust particles detected in the outer solar system by the Voyager 1 and 2 plasma wave instruments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3125-3128

  Gurnett, D A ^a   Ansher, J A ^a   Kurth, W S ^a   Granroth, L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDS; DUST; PLANETS; PLASMA WAVES; SPACECRAFT; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PLASMA DEVICES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ASTRONOMICAL UNITS; HELIOCENTRIC RADIAL DISTANCE; INTERPLANETARY MEDIUM; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUMS; OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PLASMA WAVE INSTRUMENTS; ULYSSES SPACECRAFT;

SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE RESEARCH;

VOYAGER 1; VOYAGER 2;

INTERPLANETARY DUST; VOYAGER 1; VOYAGER 2;

EID: 0031390945     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03228     Document Type: Article

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