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Zodiacal dust bands - Their relation to asteroid families

Journal Article · · Icarus (International Journal of the Solar System); (USA)
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  1. Steward Observatory, Tucson, AZ (USA)

The zodiacal dust band phenomenon is presently reproduced by a mathematical model of orbitally evolved collisional debris spatial distributions whose torus exhibits particle-density maxima at heliocentric latitudes near its constituent particles' mean proper orbital inclinations, as well as near the loci of the particle orbits' perihelia and aphelia. Models of dust toruses for seven asteroid families are generated and compared with observations of the principal dust bands. Nonequilibrium models of dust band production and evolution furnish a framework within which all dust band observations can be understood. 30 refs.

OSTI ID:
6643010
Journal Information:
Icarus (International Journal of the Solar System); (USA), Journal Name: Icarus (International Journal of the Solar System); (USA) Vol. 85; ISSN ICRSA; ISSN 0019-1035
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English