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We consider the infrared brightness of a flattened comet belt beyond the orbit of Neptune using a disk-like model with a power-law density distribution of comets. We compare this spectrum with the emission from a model zodiacal dust cloud in the ecliptic and with published IRAS data and present some consequences of dust in the comet belt.
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Jackson, A.A., Killen, R.M. Infrared brightness of a comet belt beyond Neptune. Earth Moon Planet 42, 41–47 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118038
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