Ion bombardment of interplanetary dust |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA;2. Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA;3. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA |
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Abstract: | The recent discovery of ion tracks in interplanetary dust and the increasing evidence for carbon and carburized materials in these objects are strongly suggestive that chemical processing by energetic charged-particle bombardment has occured during the dust lifetimes. The track density gives a measure of the total ion fluence experienced by the grains. We use this information and laboratory data on the modification of icy surfaces by incident ions and electrons to discuss the likelihood that chondritic interplanetary dust particles could have been proceed, by plasma bombardment, from aggregates of particles which had volatile and/or ogranic mantles. Such a processing would leave carbon and carburized deposits and can affect estimates of the temperature of formation of these dust grains. |
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