Papers Published

1. Haff, P.K. and Eviatar, A., Micrometeoroid impact on planetary satellites as a magnetospheric mass source, Icarus (USA), vol. 66 no. 2 (1986), pp. 258 - 69 [0019-1035(86)90156-9] .
   (last updated on 2007/04/10)

   Abstract:
   Planetary satellites are an important source of mass for planetary magnetospheres. Meteoroid impact vaporization is a supply mechanism which can potentially compete with charged-particle sputtering. Estimates of impact fluxes in the outer solar system vary by several orders of magnitude. For the larger flux values impact vaporization will play a role both at Jupiter and Saturn, although for the most part it will not dominate over sputtering. At the small end of the flux range, sputtering dominates magnetospheric mass-loading everywhere

   Keywords:
   meteoroids;micrometeorites;planetary atmospheres;planetary satellites;planets;