Posted: Jun 09, 2022 4:20 pm
Spearthrower wrote:We learned something about the distribution of dust grains in the solar system: there are shit loads.
Indeed there are. The asteroid count to 2018 is getting very silly and if we add comet-sourced dust and the interstellar contribution the object count is going to get astronomical very quickly. A source of the dust probably responsible for the "Zodiacal light" phenomenon was observed by the Juno probe as it passed by Mars on its way to scan Jupiter...