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Proposed model consists of a dust cloud located a distance, R, from the star (with a width ΔR), suspended in a gaseous medium. A planet scatters planetesimals out of the midplane, which collide and fragment. The smallest particles are bound to the gas and slowly settle into the midplane.
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