Dust Impact Monitor (SESAME-DIM) on-board Rosetta/Philae: Aerogel as comet analog material

Alberto Flandes; Thomas Albin; Walter Arnold; Hans Herbert Fischer; Attila Hirn; Alexander Loose; Cornelia Mewes; Morris Podolak; Klaus J. Seidensticker; Cynthia Volkert; Harald Krüger

doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.11.008

Dust Impact Monitor (SESAME-DIM) on-board Rosetta/Philae: Aerogel as comet analog material

Alberto Flandes^*, Thomas Albin, Walter Arnold, Hans Herbert Fischer, Attila Hirn, Alexander Loose, Cornelia Mewes, Morris Podolak, Klaus J. Seidensticker, Cynthia Volkert, Harald Krüger

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Abstract

On 12 November 2014, during the descent of the Rosetta lander Philae to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko the Dust Impact Monitor (DIM) on board Philae recorded an impact of a cometary dust impact of a cometary dust particle at 2.4 km from the comet surface (5 km from the nucleus’ barycentre). In this work, we report further experiments that support the identification of this particle. We use aerogel as a comet analog material to characterise the properties of this particle. Our experiments show that this particle has a radius of 0.9 mm, a low density of 0.25 g/cm³ and a high porosity close to 90%. The particle likely moved at near 4 m/s with respect to the comet.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Icarus
Volume	302
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.11.008
State	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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Funders	Funder number
DGAPA
MTA EK	90010
PAPIIT	IA105016, IA100114
Division of Loan Repayment	50 QP 1302
European Space Agency	98072, 4000107211/12/NL/KML, 4000106879/12/NL/KML, 98001
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie

Keywords

Aerogel
Comet 67P
Dust
Dust Impact Monitor (DIM)
Philae
Rosetta
SESAME
Young's modulus

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