Opportunities to Directly Observe the Interaction of Interstellar Dust with our Heliosphere with an Interstellar Probe

Jamey R Szalay1, Pontus C. Brandt2, Bruce Draine3, Priscilla C Frisch4, Eberhard Gruen5, Brandon Hensley3, Mihaly Horanyi6, Hsiang-Wen Hsu7, Silvan Hunziker8, Sascha Kempf7, Harald Krüger9, Carey Michael Lisse10, Andrew R Poppe11, Frank Postberg12, Jonathan D Slavin13, Ralf Srama14, Veerle J Sterken8, Zoltan Sternovsky15, Peter Strub16 and Michael B. Zemcov17, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (4)University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, IL, United States, (5)Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany, (6)University of Colorado, Physics Department, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)LASP/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (9)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (10)JHU-APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (11)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (12)University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, (13)Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, United States, (14)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Space Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, (15)University of Colorado, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)MPIK / Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (17)Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Physics & Astronomy, Rochester, NY, United States