Interplanetary medium
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| definition | The material contained in the solar system in the space through which the planets travel. It consists of the smaller objects such as asteroids, comets, meteorites and also a general pervading interplanetary dust. Moreover a plasma of charged particles streaming outward from the Sun in the form of the solar wind contributes to the interplanetary medium. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| contributor | AAS_Frey.Katie original | |||||||||||||||||||||