PREDNASAJUCI / LECTURER :

Silvia Ďurišová

(1) Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
059 60 Tatranská Lomnica

NAZOV / TITLE :

Investigating hyperbolic dust orbits identified in data collected
by Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyzer


ABSTRAKT / ABSTRACT :

Between 2004 and 2017, the Cassini spacecraft orbited the Saturnian
system, during which the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) instrument
collected measurements of dust particles around Saturn. Among the
analyzed data, 163 particles were identified as having a potentially
external origin (Kempf et al, 2023 and Altobelli et al., 2025).
A subset of these particles moves along hyperbolic heliocentric
orbits, indicating a possible interstellar origin. In this
presentation, we will examine these candidate interstellar particles
in more detail.