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Re: (meteorobs) Zodiacal light questions
How do Zodiacal Light "particles" compare in size, density, and,
distribution (like particles per km3) to leonid stream particles
Lew Gramer wrote:
>
> >More of the light reflects back to the Earth for its surface
> >or the interplanetary dust. Does that hand-waving make sense?
>
> It does indeed, Malcolm... And of course, I understand that the
> phase geometry is complicated by the fact that much of the ZLP
> is due to *forward* scatter of light, but that there's still a
> substantal backscatter component: the proportions of each type
> of scatter at a particular solar elongation along the ecliptic,
> on a given date, will depend on the relative size distribution,
> average distance, and density of particles doing the reflecting!
>
> Whew! You can tell it has clouded up in New England once again,
> when I start breaking into the theory discussions. ;>
>
> Lew
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