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Detection of Possible Interstellar Particles by the HITEN Spacecraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

H. Svedhem ,
R. Münzenmayer  and
H. Iglseder
H. Svedhem
Affiliation:
Space Science Department, European Space Agency, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
R. Münzenmayer
Affiliation:
Fachgebiet Raumfahrttechnik, Technische Universität München, Richard Wagner Str. 18, D-80333 München, Germany
H. Iglseder
Affiliation:
ZARM, University of Bremen, Postfach 330440, D-28359 Bremen, Germany

Abstract

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The Cosmic Dust experiment on the Hiten spacecraft detected more than 500 events likely to be associated with particle impacts during its three years life in space. An excess of approximately 40% was observed in the direction of 220° ecliptic longitude. This direction corresponds well with the direction of the reported interstellar Helium and interstellar dust seen by other experimenters. In absolute number this is about 20 particles. Since this data was taken during three full years and thus most other effects should be averaged out we believe that these particles are of interstellar origin.

Type
I. Dynamics of the Interplanetary Dust Cloud
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 150: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics of Interplanetary Dust , 1996 , pp. 27 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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