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From Interstellar Dust to Comets to the Zodiacal Light

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. M. Greenberg
J. M. Greenberg*
Affiliation:
Laboratory Astrophysics, Leiden University, Leiden, Holland

Abstract

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We consider the consequences of the assumption that the interplanetary particles which produce the zodiacal light have evolved from interstellar dust via comets. The chemical evolution of interstellar dust followed by the process of aggregation into the cometary nucleus and the subsequent ejection of cometary debris provide the basis for a model for the interplanetary particles. The scattering properties of these particles are reasonably consistent with current observations of the variation with elongation angle of the brightness and polarization of the zodiacal light. The major chemical constituents of the model are in the form of a matrix of volatile ices and complex nonvolatile molecules containing C, N and O in which are imbedded silicate and metallic inclusions.

Type
IV: The Interplanetary Dust Complex 2. Physical Properties
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 90: Solid Particles in the Solar System , 1980 , pp. 343 - 350
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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