[meteorite-list] Possible Asteroid Belt Found Around Distant Star

[Paul H]

Asteroid belt found round distant star
Guardian, UK, April 20, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1464446,00.html

"(Charles) Beichman and his colleagues used an
infrared 
spectrograph aboard Nasa's space telescope Spitzer 
to look at 85 sun-like stars. Only HD69830 showed 
a thick disk of warm dust in the inner section of 
the star system. The guess is that every 1,000 years 
or so, two asteroids in the belt collide and pulverise

each other."


NASA Spots Possible Asteroid Belt
San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2005
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/04/20/national/a181043D58.DTL


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