Interplanetary Dust

About this book

A handbook on the physics of interplanetary dust, a topic of interest not only to astronomers and space scientists but also to engineers. The following topics are covered in the book: historical perspectives; cometary dust; near-Earth environment; meteoroids and meteors; properties of interplanetary dust, information from collected samples; in situ measurements of cosmic dust; numerical modeling of the Zodiacal Cloud structure; synthesis of observations; instrumentation; physical processes; optical properties of interplanetary dust; orbital evolution of interplanetary dust; circumplanetary dust, observations and simple physics; interstellar dust and circumstellar dust disks.

Contents

From the contents: Historical Perspectives * Optical and Thermal Properties of Interplanetary Dust * Cometary Dust * Near Earth Environment * Discoveries from Observations and Modeling of the 1998/99 Leonids * Properties of Interplanetary Dust: Information from Collected Samples * In-Situ Measurements of Cosmic Dust * Synthesis of Observations * Instrumentation * Physical Processes * Interactions with Electromagnetic Radiation: Theory and Laboratory Simulations * Orbital Evolution of Interplanetary Dust * Dusty Rings and Circumplanetary Dust: Observations and Simple Physics * Interstellar Dust and Circumstellar Dust Disks * Glossary * Index.

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