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Student Dust Counter Status Report: The First 50 au

Singer, Kelsi N.; James, David; Weaver, Harold +12 more

The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (SDC) is an in situ dust detector on board the New Horizons spacecraft measuring the interplanetary dust particle (IDP) distribution for grains with mass m > 10^-12 g. SDC provides a near-continuous measure of the interplanetary dust environment, with recent results spanning beyond 50 au. This c…