P41C-3923:
Does 67P/C-G Have a Dusty Plasma Environment?
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Tamas I Gombosi, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Abstract:
It has been long debated if dusty plasmas (that exhibit collective behavior) exist near comets. This talk examines some basic scaling laws and concludes that in the vicinity of the nucleus of 67P/C-G the conditions are right for the existance of dusty plasmas. The big question is: can these plasmas be observed with the instrument package on the Rosetta spacecraft.
