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Modeling the Sporadic Meteoroid Background Cloud

Dikarev, V.; Grün, E.; Landgraf, M. +3 more

The orbital distributions of dust particles in interplanetary space are revised in the ESA meteoroid model to incorporate more observational data and to comply with the constraints due to the long-term particle dynamics under the planetary gravity and Poynting–Robertson effect. Infrared observations of the zodiacal cloud by the COBE Earth-bound ob…