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Jetstream Formation through Inelastic Collisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

David C. Baxter
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
William B. Thompson
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego

Abstract

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An inelastic collision integral is used in a Boltzmann-type equation for a distribution of particles in Kepler orbits. A Fokker-Planck equation is found that leads to radial density clustering.

Type
Part II-Origin of Asteroids Interrelations with Comets, Meteorites, and Meteors
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1971

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