Kuiper Belt dust may be in our atmosphere (and NASA labs) right now
Astronomers may not have far to go to study a piece of the distant, icy region
COME FROM AWAY Some interplanetary dust particles that end up in Earth’s atmosphere may have started life in the faraway Kuiper Belt (illustrated), a region of icy objects farther from the sun than Neptune.
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