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Schematic illustration of dust ejection in our model. In the figure, the gray sphere corresponds to the Hill radius of Phaethon (r = 78 km from Phaethon’s center of mass at present-day orbit). The dust particles have small outward terminal velocities (blue arrows) on the Hill sphere (vr = 1 m s−1).
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