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Solar Wind Magnetic Field Bending of Jovian Dust Trajectories

Forsyth, R.; Hamilton, D. P.; Phillips, J. L. +5 more

From September 1991 to October 1992, the cosmic dust detector on the Ulysses spacecraft recorded 11 short bursts, or streams, of dust. These dust grains emanated from the jovian system, and their trajectories were strongly affected by solar wind magnetic field forces. Analyses of the on-board measurements of these fields, and of stream approach di…