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Re: (meteorobs) Re: Zodiacal light
At 05:10 PM 1/26/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Lew & all,
>
>Wow; I've not heard of the gegenshein or zodiacal band, ever. What is the
>cause of these phenomena?
>
They are cause by light reflecting from myriad dust particles in the solar
system.
Tropical skies are quite bright, in terms of sky glow. I have never
unambiguously seen the gegenschein from Hawaii. Then again I never saw it
from the northern US, either.
Zodiacal light picture: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasadot gov/apod/ap970826.html
Simple explanation from Earth & Sky:
http://earthsky.worldofscience.com/1998/es980921.html
Zodiacal light observed by Clementine:
http://sn-callisto.jsc.nasadot gov/sn3_other/zodiac/zodiac.html
The Zodiacal light in infrared:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasadot gov/apod/ap980128.html
SEDS on the the interplanetary medium:
http://seds.lpl.arizonadot edu/billa/tnp/medium.html
Gegenschein picture:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasadot gov/rjn/apod/ap990625.html
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