Talk:Interplanetary dust cloud

No proper introduction

The current version of this article appears to be written for an audience already familiar with the subject. It fails to identify exactly what the "interplanetary dust cloud" is, but launches immediately into its study and aspects. Could someone familiar with the subject attempt to write a proper introduction? Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:27, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I made an attempt. -- Beland (talk) 17:13, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Map

A map of the known features would be helpful to visualize the thing. -- Beland (talk) 17:14, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Just as a heads up, this might not be as easy as it may appear, or even really possible. All of these types of dust are pretty much everywhere, in varying densities. Even if you look at the dust cloud from a single comet, this becomes an incredibly complex structure over a few hundred years, with lifetimes much longer than that. Considering that there are hundreds of comets with such structures developed over thousands of years (with fading intensity and structural definition), what you end up is every type of dust being everywhere, just in varying, very complex density structures. These are not fully understood, even though there are databases which estimate the population, mainly by orbit characteristics (a,e,i mainly). Example for a project working on a higher resolution model: The Interplanetary Meteoroid Environment for eXploration - (IMEX) project. We are talking about terabytes of particle data in three space and one time dimension. I at least have no good idea how to visualize this data, and other dust sources are similar. What might be possible is a plot of the dust density from different sources over their semimajor axis. This paper offers something like that, and could be used as a source. — Julian H.^✈(talk) 08:05, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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Effect on astronomical observations

I've heard scientists complain about the negative effect that this cloud has on astronomical observation beyond our solar system, but I find no mention of this in the article. Can a section for it be added? Schnitzi (talk) 08:07, 8 August 2022 (UTC)