Cometary Origin of the Zodiacal Cloud and Carbonaceous

• Main Authors: Peter Jenniskens, Harold F. Levison, William F. Bottke
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Subject headings; Zodiacal light; Comets; dust; Debris disks; Meteorites; Antarctic; Jupiter; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.246.2257; http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.4322v1.pdf

The zodiacal cloud is a thick circumsolar disk of small debris particles produced by asteroid collisions and comets. The relative proportion in which these two source populations contribute to the zodiacal cloud and the exact physical mechanism that generates the bulk of observed dust were unknown....