Ben Zuckerman Quotes

If we don't detect metal rich dust around the other white dwarves, we might have to revise our thinking [about the dust's origin]... The comet impact model looked pretty good 10 years ago, but it doesn't look so good anymore. There's still a lot of mystery.

- Ben Zuckerman

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It's possible they were formed by some object getting tossed in too close to Saturn and it got torn apart by gravity. - Ben Zuckerman

If we don't detect metal rich dust around the other white dwarves, we might have to revise our thinking [about the dust's origin]... The comet impact model looked pretty good 10 years ago, but it doesn't look so good anymore. There's still a lot of mystery. - Ben Zuckerman

Or you could just have a big object tossed in close to the star. It goes into orbit and it will get torn apart by the gravity of the star once it gets close enough. - Ben Zuckerman