15 research outputs found
Reflected Light from Sand Grains in the Terrestrial Zone of a Protoplanetary Disk
We show that grains have grown to ~mm size (sand sized) or larger in the
terrestrial zone (within ~3 AU) of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the 3
Myr old binary star KH 15D. We also argue that the reflected light in the
system reaches us by back scattering off the far side of the same ring whose
near side causes the obscuration.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figures. To be published in Nature, March 13, 2008.
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Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region
Nature, 439, pp. 821-824, http://dx.doi.org./10.1038/nature04536International audienc
Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects
Nature, 460, pp. 364-366 (2009)International audienc
Earth encounters as the origin of fresh surfaces on near-Earth asteroids
Nature, 463, Issue 7279, pp. 331-334 (2010)International audienc