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6.3 Can Comets be the Only Source Op Interplanetary Dust?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A.H. Delsemme*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio/USA

Abstract

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The steady-state of the meteoritic complex can be achieved by the present input rate of cometary dust, if the long-period and “new” comets release a sizeable fraction of their dust, in grains larger than 100 microns.

Type
6 Concluding Summaries
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1976

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