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Paddack & Rhee 1975
Paddack, S.J. and Rhee, J.W. (1975). Rotational bursting of interplanetary dust particles. Geophysical Research Letters 2: doi: 10.1029/GL002i009p00365. issn: 0094-8276.

Solar radiation pressure can cause rotational bursting and eventual elimination from the solar system of asymmetric dust particles by a windmill effect. The life span against this process for metallic particles with radii of 10-5 to 10-2 cm ranges from 10 and 10,000 years. The effects of magnetic spin damping have been considered in this estimate. This depletion mechanism works faster than the traditional Poynting-Robertson effect by approximately one order of magnitude for metallic particles and about two orders of magnitude for nonmetallic particles.

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