Interplanetary medium

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Name (Hebrew)
מדיום הבין-כוכבי
Name (Latin)
Interplanetary medium
Name (Arabic)
وسط بين كوكبي
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Astrophysics
Planetology
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q1118875
Library of congress: sh 94000074
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: 92-225402: Mezhplanetnai͡a sreda i ... 1991.
  • McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech.(That part of space containing electromagnetic radiation, dust, gas, and plasma between planets.)
  • AP dict. sci. tech.
  • Concise dict. astron.
  • NASA.
  • Facts file dict. astron.
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Wikipedia description:

The interplanetary medium (IPM) or interplanetary space consists of the mass and energy which fills the Solar System, and through which all the larger Solar System bodies, such as planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets, move. The IPM stops at the heliopause, outside of which the interstellar medium begins. Before 1950, interplanetary space was widely considered to either be an empty vacuum, or consisting of "aether".

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