First results from the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter on the New Horizons mission

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Poppe, Andrew ^a   James, David ^a   Jacobsmeyer, Brian ^a   Hornyi, Mihály ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST DETECTORS; DUST FLUX; DUST GRAINS; GALILEO; HYPERVELOCITIES; INTERPLANETARY DUST; JUPITERS; PIONEER 10; PLASMA WAVE INSTRUMENTS; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; ULYSSES; VOYAGER 1;

DETECTORS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA WAVES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

DUST;

DETECTION METHOD; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERPLANETARY DUST; SPATIAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77953582636     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043300     Document Type: Article

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