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zodiacal dust
Dust particles, 1 to 300 microns in diameter, that have come from the tails of comets and from collisions between asteroids, and that occupy a flat cloud in the Solar System known as the zodiacal cloud.
Related entry
• zodiacal light
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• INTERSTELLAR AND INTERPLANETARY MATTER
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