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Title:
Sample return of interstellar matter (SARIM)
Authors:
Srama, Ralf; Stephan, Thomas; Grün, Eberhard; Pailer, Norbert; Kearsley, Anton; Graps, Amara; Laufer, Rene; Ehrenfreund, Pascale; Altobelli, Nicolas; Altwegg, Kathrin; Auer, Siegfried; Baggaley, Jack; Burchell, Mark J.; Carpenter, James; Colangeli, Luigi; Esposito, Francesca; Green, Simon F.; Henkel, Hartmut; Horanyi, Mihaly; Jäckel, Annette; Kempf, Sascha; McBride, Neil; Moragas-Klostermeyer, Georg; Krüger, Harald; Palumbo, Pasquale; Srowig, Andre; Trieloff, Mario; Tsou, Peter; Sternovsky, Zoltan; Zeile, Oliver; Röser, Hans-Peter
Affiliation:
AA(Max-Planck-Institute Nuclear Physics; IRS, University Stuttgart), AB(University of Chicago), AC(Max-Planck-Institute Nuclear Physics; LASP, University Colorado), AD(Astrium GmbH), AE(Natural History Museum), AF(INAF-IFSI), AG(IRS, University Stuttgart), AH(University Leiden), AI(JPL), AJ(University Bern), AK(A&M Associates), AL(University Canterbury), AM(University of Kent), AN(University Leicester), AO(INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte), AP(INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte), AQ(Open University), AR(von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH), AS(LASP, University Colorado), AT(University Bern), AU(Max-Planck-Institute Nuclear Physics; , University Braunschweig), AV(Open University), AW(Max-Planck-Institute Nuclear Physics), AX(MPS), AY(University Parthenope), AZ(KIP), BA(University Heidelberg), BB(MPS), BC(LASP, University Colorado), BD(IRS, University Stuttgart), BE(IRS, University Stuttgart)
Publication:
Experimental Astronomy, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp.303-328 (ExA Homepage)
Publication Date:
03/2009
Origin:
SPRINGER
Keywords:
Interstellar dust, Interplanetary dust, Collection, Interstellar medium, Dust collector, Sample return, Chemical composition
DOI:
10.1007/s10686-008-9088-7
Bibliographic Code:
2009ExA....23..303S

Abstract

The scientific community has expressed strong interest to re-fly Stardust-like missions with improved instrumentation. We propose a new mission concept, SARIM, that collects interstellar and interplanetary dust particles and returns them to Earth. SARIM is optimised for the collection and discrimination of interstellar dust grains. Improved active dust collectors on-board allow us to perform in-situ determination of individual dust impacts and their impact location. This will provide important constraints for subsequent laboratory analysis. The SARIM spacecraft will be placed at the L2 libration point of the Sun-Earth system, outside the Earth’s debris belts and inside the solar-wind charging environment. SARIM is three-axes stabilised and collects interstellar grains between July and October when the relative encounter speeds with interstellar dust grains are lowest (4 to 20 km/s). During a 3-year dust collection period several hundred interstellar and several thousand interplanetary grains will be collected by a total sensitive area of 1 m2. At the end of the collection phase seven collector modules are stored and sealed in a MIRKA-type sample return capsule. SARIM will return the capsule containing the stardust to Earth to allow for an extraction and investigation of interstellar samples by latest laboratory technologies.
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