@article{be210ab8f9474bb6a2b4c823e86b4be3,
title = "The formation and origin of the IRAS zodiacal dust bands as a consequence of single collisions between asteroids",
abstract = "The zodiacal dust bands discovered by IRAS can be explained as products of single collisions between asteroids. Debris from such a collision is distributed about the plane of the ecliptic as particles experience differential precession of their ascending nodes due to dispersion of their semimajor axes. For each collision, two bands, one on each side of the ecliptic, are formed on time scales of 105 to 106 years. The band pairs observed by IRAS are most likely the result of collisions between asteroids ∼15 km in diameter that occured within the last several million years. Further analysis of the IRAS sky survey data and of any future, more sensitive surveys should reveal additional, fainter band pairs. Our model suggests that asteroid collisions are sufficient to account for the bulk of the observed zodiacal thermal emission.",
author = "Sykes, {Mark V.} and Richard Greenberg",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Donald M. Hunten for the support and encouragement he has provided for this effort over the past year. He has also been the source of several useful suggestions and comments. We also thank Leon Blitzer, C. R. Chapman, S. Croft, D. R. Davis, W. K. Hartmann, L. Hood, L. Lebofsky. R. Rudy, and S. J. Weidenschilling for discussions and comments bearing on aspects of this paper. T. N. Gamier, E. Young, and F. Low have also been helpful in understanding the IRAS observations. Alan Harris provided very useful comments in reviewing this work. Karen Denomy is especially thanked for drawing the figures in this pa- per. This work was supported by NSF Grant AST-8206173t o the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and NASA Contract NASW-3516 with the Planetary Science Institute. PSI is a division of Science Applications International Corp. This is PSI Contribution 202.",
year = "1986",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/0019-1035(86)90063-1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "65",
pages = "51--69",
journal = "Icarus",
issn = "0019-1035",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "1",
}