HR: 13:40h
AN: SH43B-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Some Aspects of Dust-Plasma Interactions in the Solar System
AU: * Mendis, A
EM: mendis@ece.ucsd.edu
AF: San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive (0407), La Jolla, CA 92093-0407 United States
AU: Tsurutani, B
EM: Bruce.T.Tsurutani@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AB: Dust and Plasma co-exist in numerous environments in both space and the laboratory. Here we discuss some aspects of dust-plasma interactions in several solar system environments including comet tails, planetary magnetospheres and the terrestrial mesosphere. While dust grains interact with naturally occurring plasmas in the solar system, they can also be a source of plasma as they impact the ambient medium as well as spacecraft, thereby providing another way for their detection. Here we will also address this phenomenon.
DE: 5737 Magnetospheres (2756)
DE: 6213 Dust
DE: 2700 MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting