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Surface brightness photometry of the night sky from rocket and satellite experiments shows an increase in the scattering efficiency of interplanetary dust grains in the 1500 to 3000 Å region of the spectrum. This increase is best explained by the presence of small dielectric particles with a mean radius of 0.04 microns. The most likely source of these grains is the dissolution of agglomerates of these particles which are released by comets during their perihelion passage. Many of these agglomerates have been collected in the Earth’s atmosphere by high flying aircraft. Submicron particles swept up from interplanetary space may be responsible for the high altitude haze observed in planetary atmospheres.
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Lillie, C.F. (1991). Ultraviolet Observations of the Zodiacal Light and the Origin of Interplanetary Dust Grains. In: Levasseur-Regourd, A.C., Hasegawa, H. (eds) Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 173. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3640-2_31
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