(meteorobs) FW: Atmospheric Cosmic Dust Capture

[Bias, Peter V]

Hello All,

Many of you helped Mr. Nissen with your suggestions a couple of weeks
ago and he has asked for a little more information (see below). If any
of you can help with these new problems, I will again pass the
suggestions along to him. Thanks!

   Pete Bias

-----Original Message-----
From: jayson nissen [mailto:jayson_nissen at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:59 PM
To: Bias, Peter V
Subject: RE: Atmospheric Cosmic Dust Capture

Thanks for the help.  I figured it was the least I
could do to update you with our current plan since
many of the contacts and ideas you gave me set the
ground work for it.
  We are going to try to capture the particle by using
a positive displacement pump or air
entrainment to capture them in a propylene glycol
adhesive.
  The two problems we have are:
1) We need a means of moving 1 cubic meter of air per
second at 2 mbars atmospheric pressure.
2) We need a capture medium to adhere to the
particles.  It must be soluble, not contaminate the
particles, freeze below -50 C and not sublimate at
pressures of 1 mbar.
  Any more help you could provide would be gratly
appreciated.
  We did some math and figure that we should be able
to capture roughly 10 particles in the flight now we
just need to get it engineered.
                      Thank you
                      Jayson Nissen