The particle size and shape analysis of NASA/USGS lunar simulant

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:07 Overview
00:02:07 One small step…
00:02:56 The wonder of science
00:03:39 Obligatory opening quotation
00:04:18 Why?
00:05:09 “Dust is the number one concern in returning to the moon”
00:05:45 Lunar ‘Dust’ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/TM-2005-213610.pdf
00:07:01 Space – the final frontier
00:07:48 What is regolith?
00:09:13 Lunar regolith – what’s different from the perspective of a particle
00:10:42 The real thing
00:12:30 Size range of lunar regolith and simulant http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/strategies/jsc_lunar_simulant.pdf
00:13:30 Lunar Simulant Why?
00:15:43 The Regolith Challenge
00:17:28 http://thelaunchpad.xprize.org/2009_10_18_archive.html
00:18:04 http://isru.msfc.nasa.gov/lib/Documents/Simulant-listing.pdf
00:19:40 Anorthosite on the lunar surface
00:19:54 Care!
00:21:13 NU-LHT-1M
00:22:08 USGS/NASA lunar regolith simulant
00:22:52 Consider the difficulty of the issues…
00:24:07 Abrasion – the real final frontier…
00:24:46 Abrasion
00:26:01 Wm. Mackie ”On the laws that govern the rounding of grains of sand” Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society 7(3), 298-311, (1897) April 28th 1856 - July 15th 1932 Place of Birth: Loanends of Durno, Chapel of Garioch, Aberdeenshire
00:27:06 Chester K Wentworth – 1919 A laboratory and field study of cobble abrasion
00:28:06 Chester Wentworth – 1919 A laboratory and field study of cobble abrasion
00:28:45 Chester Wentworth – 1919 (May 7th, 1891 – January 1969) A laboratory and field study of cobble abrasion
00:29:27 Wentworth – 1922 Early use of scattergrams?
00:30:05 Shapometer Allen C Tester Science, 1931
00:31:13 R Dana Russell & Ralph E Taylor 1937 – Mississippi River Sands
00:32:20 Krumbein, 1941
00:33:13 Krumbein, 1941
00:33:42 Krumbein, 1941
00:34:37 Krumbein, 1941
00:35:45 Krumbein, 1938 Surface texture, S
00:36:38 W C Krumbein & F J Pettijohn Manual of Sedimentary Petrography (1938) Chapter 12 “Surface textures of sedimentary fragments and particles” pp 303-308 5½ pages only Chapter 11 is “Shape and Roundness” (recommended for history)
00:37:21 W C Krumbein & F J Pettijohn Manual of Sedimentary Petrography (1938) Chapter 12 “Surface textures of sedimentary fragments and particles”
00:38:01 Quick shape
00:38:49 Wadell
00:39:11 Wadell – from Krumbein/Pettijohn
00:40:16 Harold Heywood
00:40:45 Heywood Factor
00:42:14 ISO 9276-6: 2008 Representation of results of particle size analysis -- Part 6: Descriptive and quantitative representation of particle shape and morphology
00:43:18 ISO13322-x
00:43:40 Shape – the real thing? Based on definition and resolution
00:44:54 The size distribution - wet and dry See: http://isru.msfc.nasa.gov/lib/Documents/particlesize/LHT-1M/Malvern/Size/LHT-1Msize_Malvern2102_Report.pdf
00:45:57 Minimum Mass (based on Gy statistics)
00:47:01 Best Fundamental Sampling Error (FSE)
00:48:44 Number distribution
00:49:21 The shape distribution
00:50:03 Eric Pirard Personal communication October 5th, 2010 06:21 AM
00:50:53 Shape distribution
00:51:34 Pictures – 103 (or 1E3) words? NU-LHT-1M (Batch 26)
00:52:11 Pictures – 103 (or 1E3) words? NU-LHT-1M (Batch 121; 75 – 300mm fraction)
00:52:53 Fines fraction – 4 bar dispersion
00:53:09 Figures of Merit for simulant
00:53:46 ISO standard
00:53:56 One example – particle size
00:54:28 Standardization ISO/CD 10788 Space systems -- Lunar dust simulant From: ISO TC 20/SC 14 Space Systems and Operations Standardization
00:54:41 From the draft…
00:54:53 Summary
00:55:56 Acknowledgments and thank you
In this webinar we'll consider the background to the manufacture of the NASA/USGS lunar simulant NU-LHT-1M and the characterization of this material by the Malvern Mastersizer 2000 and Morphologi G3 instruments.