A Search for Variability in Jupiter's Sodium Magneto-Nebula Associated with the Comet Shoemaker-Levy Encounter

寻找与舒梅克-利维彗星相遇有关的木星钠磁星云的变化

• 批准号: 9322323
• 负责人: Michael Mendillo
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-05-01 至 1995-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9322323&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Search; Variability; Jupiter; Sodium; Magneto

9322323 Mendillo The projected impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the planet Jupiter offers an unprecedented opportunity to study a wide range of possible effects in atmospheric science and space plasma physics. Dr. Mendillo will search for signatures on the largest known spatial scale associated with the planet - the sodium magneto-nebula that spans 1000 Jovian radii. He will conduct an intense 3-week imaging campaign to document the state of the magneto-nebula prior to, during, and following the encounter date in July 1994. Possible disruption of the plasma-neutral interactions in the Io plasma torus and sodium cloud that drive the great nebula bring unique "active experiment" investigation techniques to planetary atmosphere research. ***

小行星9322323 预计苏梅克-列维9号彗星将撞击木星，这为研究大气科学和空间等离子体物理学中各种可能的影响提供了前所未有的机会。 Mendillo博士将在与该行星相关的最大已知空间尺度上寻找签名-跨越1000木星半径的钠磁星云。 他将进行为期3周的密集成像活动，以记录1994年7月相遇日期之前、期间和之后的磁星云状态。 驱动大星云的木卫一等离子体环和钠云中等离子体中性相互作用的可能中断为行星大气研究带来了独特的“主动实验”调查技术。 ***