NASA NTRS · 19900039965
Dust bands in the asteroid belt
Abstract
This paper describes the original IRAS observations leading to the discovery of the three dust bands in the asteroid belt and the analysis of data. Special attention is given to an analytical model of the dust band torus and to theories concerning the origin of the dust bands, with special attention given to the collisional equilibrium (asteroid family), the nonequilibrium (random collision), and the comet hypotheses of dust-band origin. It is noted that neither the equilibrium nor nonequilibrium models, as currently formulated, present a complete picture of the IRAS dust-band observations.
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Sykes, Mark V., Greenberg, Richard, Dermott, Stanley F., Nicholson, Philip D., Burns, Joseph A.. 1989-01-01. Dust bands in the asteroid belt. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19900039965
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