Introduction:
The outer bodies the outer solar system are likely in a situation where they
receive a different amount and composition of in-falling
bolides. They are closer to the Kuiper Belt which is the source for com-ets and
has frozen volatiles. The author proposes that this would
mean that because there is less outgassing of bolides before impact from being
closer to the sun as occurs in bolides in the rocky Inner
solar system. This might increase the volume of material that impacts. Another
factor is that the gravitational sweep of the large
planetary bodies in the outer solar system would create a greater gravity well
encompassing a greater area that would mean a greater
number of meteors. The author pro-posed before that while the Cassini mission
was being planned that meteor flux
rates be examined
in the upper atmosphere of Saturn and flux rates on the moons of Saturn. Mission
constraints prevented this phenomena being
looked at. Meteor trails would leave trails that could be detected in the visual
and other electro-magnetic spectrum around Saturn. As
they are detected around Earth. These trails which are essential the dust grains
that burn up and leave an ionization trail
in the upper atmosphere of planetary bodies are at a micro level the same
amalgamation process that occurred in the formation of all
of the planetary bodies in our Solar system. It might also be possible that the
back-ground streams of meteors in the Outer Solar system
are different due to the distance from the Inner Solar system. The Suns gravity
well itself might concentrate or disperse the
background dust and other non-volatile as a factor of the distance from the Sun.
A type of Bode¢s Law for smaller Solar system
bodies down to dust particles. Conclusion: The data that came back from the
major Jupiter and Saturn missions might contain data of
the appearance and potential measurement possibility of meteor flux rates in
Outer Solar system bodies that could be compared with data
from Earth. This data might begin to indicate different flux rates and
composition as a factor of distance from the Sun. Support of
Research: This paper was supported by the Antarctic Institute of
Canada.
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