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Dust release from cold ring particles as a mechanism of spoke formation in Saturn's rings
Naoyuki Hirata, Hiroshi Kimura, Keiji Ohtsukia
Spokes in Saturn's rings are radially-extended structures consisting of dust grains. Although spacecraft and space telescope observations have revealed various detailed features of…
Electrostatic Dust Ejection From Asteroid (3200) Phaethon With the Aid of Mobile Alkali Ions at Perihelion
Hiroshi Kimura, Katsuhito Ohtsuka, Shota Kikuchi +12
The asteroid (3200) Phaethon is known to be the parent body of the Geminids, although meteor showers are commonly associated with the activity of periodic comets. What is most pecu…
Do twin spectral peaks of olivine particles in the thermal infrared diagnose their sizes and porosities?
Hiroshi Kimura, Johannes Markkanen, Ludmilla Kolokolova +4
A well-established constraint on the size of non-porous olivine grains or the porosity of aggregates consisting of small olivine grains from prominent narrow peaks in thermal infra…