• The interplanetary dust cloud, or zodiacal cloud (as the source of the zodiacal light), consists of cosmic dust (small particles floating in outer space)...
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    includes interplanetary dust, cosmic rays, and hot plasma from the solar wind.[failed verification] The density of the interplanetary medium is very low,...
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  • or light pollution. The interplanetary dust in the Solar System forms a thick, pancake-shaped cloud called the zodiacal cloud which straddles the ecliptic...
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    route to Saturn the CDA analysed the interplanetary dust cloud, the stream of interstellar dust, and Jupiter dust streams. During 13 years in orbit around...
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    dust can be further distinguished by its astronomical location: intergalactic dust, interstellar dust, interplanetary dust (as in the zodiacal cloud)...
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    An interstellar cloud is an accumulation of gas, plasma, and cosmic dust in galaxies. Put differently, an interstellar cloud is a denser-than-average region...
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    termed the interplanetary medium. A cloud of interplanetary dust is visible at night as a faint band called the zodiacal light. Interplanetary space contains...
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    centered at the antisolar point. The backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust causes this optical phenomenon, being a zodiacal light and part of...
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    detectors of sub-micron and micron sized dust particles. With these instruments the interplanetary dust cloud was characterized between Venus’ and Jupiter's...
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    Centaurs Ubiquitous Comets ☄ Meteoroids Micrometeoroids Cosmic dust Interplanetary dust cloud Trans-Neptunian region Trans-Neptunian objects Kuiper belt Pluto...
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    bodies, such as asteroids, comets, centaurs, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust clouds. Some of these bodies are in the asteroid belt (between Mars's...
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  • active galactic nuclei. Interplanetary space Interplanetary medium Interplanetary dust Interplanetary dust cloud Interplanetary magnetic field Interstellar...
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    in an isotropic flux. Models of the interplanetary dust cloud require that the lifetimes of interplanetary dust particles are longer than those for rock...
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    Micrometeoroid (category Cosmic dust)
    formation of the Solar System, consisting of particles from the interplanetary dust cloud or other objects made up from this material, like comets. The...
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  • Space Infrared vision Infrared window Interlock (engineering) Interplanetary dust cloud Intervalence charge transfer Ionic crystal Iris recognition J...
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    chloride dust. These materials originate from Io's volcanic activity, with the material that escapes to Jupiter's magnetic field and into interplanetary space...
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    observations of some other galaxies. Within molecular clouds are regions with higher density, where much dust and many gas cores reside, called clumps. These...
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    source of interplanetary dust. Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, beyond the orbit of Neptune Scattered disc, beyond the orbit of Neptune Hills cloud; only the inner...
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    an object: It is a body when referring to the frozen nucleus of ice and dust, and an object when describing the entire comet with its diffuse coma and...
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    The Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC), also known as the Local Fluff, is an interstellar cloud roughly 30 light-years (9.2 pc) across, through which the Solar...
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  • by collisions among bigger parent bodies like asteroids. Exozodiacal dust clouds are often components of debris disks that are detected around main-sequence...
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    Zodiacal light instrument measured the brightness of light scattered by interplanetary dust along the line of sight. The in situ Micrometeoroid analyzer recorded...
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    originating as meteorites Impact crater Impact event Interplanetary dust cloud § Collecting interplanetary dust on Earth Meteorite Micrometeorite Tektite "meteoroid"...
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    depths (and shapes) may differ, with g'-band being more sensitive to dust cloud scattering due to its shorter wavelength (0.47 vs. 0.62 micron). For a...
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  • astrophysics doctoral thesis was titled The thermal emission of interplanetary dust cloud models, published by the University of Colorado in 1968. His faculty...
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    formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary...
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    dust collected on Earth, in the Earth's stratosphere, and in low Earth orbit which likely include particles from the present day interplanetary dust cloud...
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    formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary...
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    molecular cloud (DMC) behavior. Extinction (astronomy) Interplanetary medium Intergalactic dust Interplanetary dust Interstellar dust Molecular Clouds Star...
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  • cloud Hill sphere Interplanetary dust cloud Interplanetary medium/space Interstellar cloud Interstellar medium Interstellar space Kordylewski cloud Kuiper...
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