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2.1.5 Flux of Hyperbolic Meteoroids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J.S. Dohnanyi
J.S. Dohnanyi*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg/F.R.G.

Abstract

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The production of hyperbolic meteoroids by inelastic collisions between meteoroids is estimated. It is found that, under reasonable assumptions, the calculated flux of hyperbolic meteoroids agrees with satellite data and with lunar microcrater distributions.

We have therefore obtained independent theoretical support for Zook and Berg’s (1975) ß-meteoroid hypothesis and for Fechtig et al. (1974) suggestion that submicron lunar microcraters are produced by ß-meteoroids.

Type
2 In Situ Measurements of Interplanetary Dust
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 31: Interplanetary Dust and Zodiacal Light , 1976 , pp. 170 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1976

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