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Student Dust Counter: Status report at 38 AU

Stern, S. A.; Szalay, J. R.; Spencer, J. +8 more

The Student Dust Counter (SDC) is an in-situ dust detector aboard the New Horizons spacecraft observing the distribution of interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) with mass >10^-12 g or approximately 0.5 µm in radius. New Horizons was launched on January 19th, 2006 and performed a fly-by of the Pluto system on July 14th, 2015. SDC…