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Electrostatic Fragmentation of Irregularly Shaped Particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Tadashi Mukai
Tadashi Mukai*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Earth Sciences Faculty of Science, Kobe University Nada, Kobe 657, Japan

Abstract

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An enhancement of the electrostatic stress forces due to the charge concentration on a position with small radius of curvature on the surface of irregularly shaped particle causes the fragmentation of fluffy particle more than expected for a spherical particle. This mechanism may act to produce “dust clusters” as detected in comet P/Halley by Simpson et al. (1987) and also “dust swarms” near the Earth as reported in Fechtig(1982).

Type
Circumplanetary Dust: Collisional and Electrostatic Processes
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 126: Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust , 1991 , pp. 371 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991

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