Plane, JMC orcid.org/0000-0003-3648-6893, Flynn, GJ, Määttänen, A et al. (4 more authors) (2018) Impacts of Cosmic Dust on Planetary Atmospheres and Surfaces. Space Science Reviews, 214 (1). 23. ISSN 0038-6308
Abstract
Recent advances in interplanetary dust modelling provide much improved estimates of the fluxes of cosmic dust particles into planetary (and lunar) atmospheres throughout the solar system. Combining the dust particle size and velocity distributions with new chemical ablation models enables the injection rates of individual elements to be predicted as a function of location and time. This information is essential for understanding a variety of atmospheric impacts, including: the formation of layers of metal atoms and ions; meteoric smoke particles and ice cloud nucleation; perturbations to atmospheric gas-phase chemistry; and the effects of the surface deposition of micrometeorites and cosmic spherules. There is discussion of impacts on all the planets, as well as on Pluto, Triton and Titan.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2017, The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Cosmic dust flux; Meteoric ablation; Planetary atmospheres; Meteoric smoke particles; Metallic layers; Noctilucent clouds; Surface deposition. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemistry (Leeds) > Physical Chemistry (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2017 13:13 |
Last Modified: | 28 Sep 2018 04:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11214-017-0458-1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:125147 |