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20172021
most citedThe Near-Sun Dust Environment: Initial Observations from Parker Solar Probe

70 citations · 155 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

astro-ph.EP2021

Erosion of volatiles by micro-meteoroid bombardment on Ceres, and comparison to the Moon and Mercury

Petr Pokorný, Erwan Mazarico, Norbert Schorghofer

(1) Ceres, the largest reservoir of water in the main-belt, was recently visited by the Dawn spacecraft that revealed several areas bearing HO-ice features. Independent telesco…

astro-ph.EP2020

Supercatastrophic disruption of asteroids in the context of SOHO comet, fireball and meteor observations

Paul Wiegert, Peter Brown, Petr Pokorný +5

Granvik et al. (2016) report an absence of asteroids on orbits with perihelia near the Sun that they attribute to the 'supercatastrophic disruption' of these bodies. Here we invest…

physics.space-ph201970 cited

The Near-Sun Dust Environment: Initial Observations from Parker Solar Probe

J. R. Szalay, P. Pokorný, S. D. Bale +11

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft has flown into the most dense and previously unexplored region of our solar system's zodiacal cloud. While PSP does not have a dedicated dus…

astro-ph.EP201931 cited

Co-orbital Asteroids as the Source of Venus's Zodiacal Dust Ring

Petr Pokorný, Marc J. Kuchner

Photometry from the Helios and STEREO spacecraft revealed regions of enhanced sky surface-brightness suggesting a narrow circumsolar ring of dust associated with Venus's orbit. We…

astro-ph.EP201754 cited

Reconciling the dawn-dusk asymmetry in Mercury's exosphere with the micrometeoroid impact directionality

Petr Pokorný, Menelaos Sarantos, Diego Janches

Combining dynamical models of dust from Jupiter Family Comets and Halley-type Comets, we demonstrate that the seasonal variation of the dust/meteoroid environment at Mercury is res…