Satoru Yamamoto
COSMIC DUST & ZODIACAL CLOUD
SCIENCES
Cosmic Dust & Zodiacal Cloud
Sciences
My main research is in the
collisional processes by dust grains in Solar System. My Dissertation
topic is "Study of collisional processes in Solar Sytem and impact
ejecta from small bodies". I performed impact experiments onto
regolith-like targets, and then use newly obtained data to study the
dynamics of dust grains. Recently, I have been interested in
Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt objects. In order to investigate dust grains
produced by these objects, I will perform new impact experiments onto
icy targets. In addition, I would like to study physical processes of
interstellar dust in molecular cloud, although I have no idea to
investigate it now.
