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SUBMITTER: Carrillo-Sanchez JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5319002 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geophysical research letters 20161214 23
There are four known sources of dust in the inner solar system: Jupiter Family comets, asteroids, Halley Type comets, and Oort Cloud comets. Here we combine the mass, velocity, and radiant distributions of these cosmic dust populations from an astronomical model with a chemical ablation model to estimate the injection rates of Na and Fe into the Earth's upper atmosphere, as well as the flux of cosmic spherules to the surface. Comparing these parameters to lidar observations of the vertical Na an ...[more]