Interstellar Meteors from Disruption of Rocky Planets by Dwarf Stars

The most common stars possess about a tenth of the mass of the Sun. A good example is the nearest star, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Proxima Centauri</a>, located 4.25 light years away and having 0.12 solar masses. Three rocky planets were reported to orbit that star: Proxima b with about 1.3 Earth masses, Proxima c with roughly 7 Earth masses and Proxima d with roughly 0.3 Earth masses, adding up to 8.6 Earth masses. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">TRAPPIST-1</a>, a dwarf star of 0.09 solar masses at a distance of 39.5 light years, was found to have 7 rocky planets with a total of 6.4 Earth masses. It is reasonable to imagine that gravitational interactions during the history of dwarf stars expelled a comparable amount of rocky material from their vicinity into interstellar space. <a href="https://avi-loeb.medium.com/interstellar-meteors-from-disruption-of-rocky-planets-by-dwarf-stars-09e4e5837f80">Visit Now</a>