Extreme collisions between planetesimals as the origin of warm dust around a Sun-like star

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7049, 2005, Pages 363-365

  Song, Inseok ^a   Zuckerman, B ^b   Weinberger, Alycia J ^c   Becklin, E E ^b  

^a GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DUST; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLANETS; SILICATES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

DUST REFLECTION; PLANETSIMALS; STARS; ZODIACAL LIGHT;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; TELECOMMUNICATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 23044483275     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03853     Document Type: Article

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