Publication Date:
2019-08-14
Description:
Analysis of IRAS data of the thermal zodiacal emission reveals an out-of-plane dust distribution near the Earth which is well-represented by a Lorentzian function. We suggest a possible explanation for the similarity as near-Earth gravitational perturbations of dust grains. Such perturbations are expected to be chaotic and will randomize any residual band structure near the Earth.
Keywords:
ASTRONOMY
Type:
Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 105; 3; p. 976-979.
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