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Ulysses spacecraft in situ detections of cometary dust trails

Krüger, Harald; Grün, Eberhard; Strub, Peter

The Ulysses spacecraft was launched in 1990 and, after a Jupiter swing-by in 1992, became the first interplanetary spacecraft orbiting the Sun on a highly inclined trajectory with an inclination of ^{79 ∘} . The spacecraft was equipped with an impact ionization dust detector which provided 17 years of in situ dust measurements in interplan…