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INTERSTELLAR matter may be captured by the gravitational field of the Sun. Harrower1 suggests that this matter is intercepted by the Earth's atmosphere at the 400-km. level, giving rise to radiostar scintillation. He estimates1 the flux of hydrogen atoms or nuclei of about 10 eV. as of order 1013 cm.−2 sec.−1.
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O'BRIEN, B. Energy Spectrum of Particles Bombarding the Earth. Nature 182, 521 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182521a0
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