Pergamon www.elsevier.com/locate/asr Adv. Space Res. Vol. 29, No. 8, pp. 1145-I 153, 2002 0 2002 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0273-l 177/02 $22.00 + 0.00 PII: SO273-1177(02)00130-8 OBSERVATION OF INTERPLANETARY AND INTERSTELLAR DUST PARTICLES BY MARS DUST COUNTER (MDC) ON BOARD NOZOMI S. Sasaki’, E. Igenbergs2, H. Ohashi3, R. Miinzenmayer2$, P-Y Naumann2”, G. Hofschuster2, M. Born2, G. Flirber’, I? Fischer”, A. Fujiwaraj, A. Glasmachers6, E. Griin7, I: Hamabe’, H. Iglseder8, 7: Kawamura’, H. Miyamoto’*, K. Morishige’, 1: Mukai’O, T. Naoi’, K. Nogami’, G. Schwehm”, H. Svedhem” ‘Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan ’ Fachgebiet Raumfahrttechnik, Technische Universitiit Miinchen, 85748 Garching, Germany 3 Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Fishery, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan 4Lehr&hl fiir Prozefirechner, Technische Universitiit Miinchen, 80333 Miinchen, Germany 5 Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, Sagamihara, 229-8510, Japan ’ Universitiit / GH Wuppertal, FB13 Lehrstuhl fiir Mefltechnik, 42097 Wuppertal, Germany ‘Max Planck Institut fiir Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany ’ Wilkhahn, Eimbeckhausen Im Landerfeld 8,31848 Bad Miinder, Germany ‘Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Mibu, Tochigi 312-0207, Japan ‘“Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe 657-0013, Japan “Space Science Department, ESA-ESTEC, PO Box 299,220O AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands $Now at Daimler-BenzAerospace, Dornier Satellitensysteme GmbH, 88039 Friedrichshafen, Germany ‘Now at Kayser-Threde GmbH, Wolfratshauser Str. 48,81379 Miinchen, Germany *Now at Department of Geosystem Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-86.56, Japan 1145