Sentences with phrase «zodiacal cloud»

[121] The total mass was estimated to be between 10 − 7 to 10 − 6 the mass of the Moon, or 10 - 100 times the mass of the Solar System's zodiacal cloud.

Disrupting comets (white and red v's) rather than asteroids (green) contribute most of the dust that makes up the zodiacal cloud (purple haze and inset).

To make the modeled zodiacal cloud as dense as the real one, the dust had to come from comets falling apart, not just those shedding dust near the sun, the team reports in the 20 April issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

Previous studies had suggested that much of the zodiacal light came from the dust of colliding asteroids, but the only way this model could reproduce the great breadth of the zodiacal cloud above and below the plane of the planets was to have the dust come from the comets that orbit in the vicinity of Jupiter's orbit.

Not exact matches

Nesvorný and his colleagues followed particles released in their model from various types of comets or from asteroids and compared the particles» fates with observations of the zodiacal dust cloud.