... of interstellar grains and interplanetary dust aggregates at various stages of their ... comets and their decay products ('boulders' and dust) may interact with the Earth ...
... Dust Molecules abstract We have obtained imaging polarimetry of the comet C/2013 R1 ... The polarisation of the dust jet-like structures in the dust coma of the comet Hale ...
... dust trail is offset from the node, although the exact time of maximum (when the ... dust trail to a first approximation by a sheet of dust within the orbital plane (the ...
... of ices from the cometтАЩs тАЬdirty snowballтАЭ nucleus, and blown away from the Sun by the solar wind; and a curved, more diffuse dust tail, produced by small dust particles ejected from the nucleus and blown outwards by the SunтАЩs radiation pressure ...
... Meteors are the flashes of light produced by grains of dust from comets as they run into the EarthтАЩs upper atmosphere. ... Their study provides information both on the dust and on its orbital distribution in the inner solar system. ...
... create new chemical species, dredge up new material to the surface of the star, and throw puffs of gas and dust into space ... Puffs of ejected dust obscuring the normally visible star are seen in R Corona Borealis stars. ...
... It has been established that the sudden fadings of RCBs are caused by clouds of carbon-rich dust passing in front of the star, but it is unclear what causes carbon gas in the stellar atmosphere to condense into dust. ...