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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 03:13:56 JST Flipboard Science Desk

What do planet formation and badminton have in common?
From @ArsTechnica: "Dust grains in protoplanetary disks align via the same aerodynamics as the sport."
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See the full paper here: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2248/7783265?login=false
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2. Badminton birdie-like aerodynamic alignment of drifting dust grains by subsonic gaseous flows in protoplanetary disks
  
  Abstract. Recent (sub)millimeter polarization observations of protoplanetary disks reveal toroidally aligned, effectively prolate dust grains large enough

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