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Sources of cosmic dust in the Earth s atmosphere #MMPMID28275286
Geophys Res Lett 2016[Dec]; 43 (23): 11979-86 PMID28275286show ga
There are four known sources of dust in the inner solar system: Jupiter Family comets, asteroids, Halley Type comets, and Oort Cloud comets. Here we combine the mass, velocity, and radiant distributions of these cosmic dust populations from an astronomical model with a chemical ablation model to estimate the injection rates of Na and Fe into the Earth's upper atmosphere, as well as the flux of cosmic spherules to the surface. Comparing these parameters to lidar observations of the vertical Na and Fe fluxes above 87.5?km, and the measured cosmic spherule accretion rate at South Pole, shows that Jupiter Family Comets contribute (80?±?17)% of the total input mass (43?±?14?t?d?1), in good accord with Cosmic Background Explorer and Planck observations of the zodiacal cloud.