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Collisions Among Interplanetary Dust Grains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

L.B. Le Sergeant
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille, France
P.L. Lamy
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille, France

Abstract

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Assuming that the zodiacal cloud is composed of two populations, the effect of collisions among the largest grains is investigated. It is found that the population of fragments is unable to explain the observed flux of submicron grains.

Type
III: The Interplanetary Dust Complex 1. Sources, Evolution, and Dynamics
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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