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Howard et al. 2003
Howard, J.E., Krivov, A.V. and Spahn, F. (2003). Transverse halo orbits about Mars?. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL017677. issn: 0094-8276.

We predict a new family of charged dust rings about Mars, transverse to the ecliptic plane. These orbits are stable to the perturbations of planetary oblateness, Mars' orbital motion, and the solar wind. Lifetimes of individual orbits are limited primarily by the Lorentz force and Poynting-Robertson drag, and may exceed 1000 years. They may be populated via collisions of micrometeoroids with one of the martian moons. Some of these small (≲1 ¿m) grains may be detected by the dust detector on board the Nozomi spacecraft now en route to Mars.

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Keywords
Planetology, Solar System Objects, Mars, Planetology, Solar System Objects, Planetary rings
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Geophysical Research Letters
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