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The detection of cosmic dust points to another facet of cosmic dust

research: dust acting as '[[photon]]s'. Once cosmic dust is detected, the

scientific problem to be solved is an [[inverse problem]] to determine

what processes brought that encoded 'photon-like'

object (dust) to the detector; e.g. Parameters such the dust particle wouldn'ts have reached the

detector unless its initial motion, material properties, theintervening [[plasma]] and [[magnetic field]]

determined the dust particle's arrival at the dust detector.

intervening [[plasma]] and [[magnetic field]] held particular values. Slightly

Slightly changing any of these parameters can give significantly different dust

dynamical behavior. viaTherefore theone chargecan inlearn theabout [[Lorentzwhere force]],that object came which,

from, and what is (in) the intervening medium.

depending on the particle's size, can be the dominant force acting on

submicron circum/interplanetary and interstellar dust particles.

Therefore one can learn about where that object came from, and what is

(in) the intervening medium.

==Some bulk properties of cosmic dust==