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Responsible Thematic Node: Small Bodies, Dust, and TNOs

Short Name: Dust Accelerator

Brief description: TNA2: Dust Accelerator Facility

URL: http://www.isa.au.dk/networks/euroPlanet/facilities/tna2/dustAccelerator.html

Type: CONTACT/Facility

English Language: YES

Restricted access: NO

Longer description:
The facility is designed to study the interaction of micro-grain impacts with target materials like planetary analogues, metals or interplanetary dust collector materials.
Dust grain materials from nano to micron sizes are accelerated, using a 2 MV Van-de-Graaff accelerator, to velocities between 1 and 60 km/s.
The accelerator can be operated in a single-shot mode and in a continuous mode.

Associated bibliographic resource 1: Low charge detector for the monitoring of hyper-velocity micron-sized dust particles Srama, R., Auer, S., Meas. Sci. Technol. 19 (2008)

Associated bibliographic resource 2: Laboratory simulation improvements for hypervelocity micrometeorite impacts ..,M. Stübig et al., Planet. Space. Sci. 49/8, p853-858, 2001

EPN location (lab or institute): MPK

Contributor: Schmidt

Last updater: Schmidt

Responsible: Srama

Other Contact (name): Ms Ludmila Hollmach

Other Contact (email): gaestebetreuung@mpi-hd.mpg.de

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