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The Space Infrared Telescope Facility, to be launched into a near-Earth heliocentric orbit in the year 2001, will open broad new vistas for the study, at infrared wavelengths, of the objects in the Solar System and planetary systems around other stars. This paper focuses on the study of Kuiper-belt comets and circumstellar planetary debris disks.
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Cruikshank, D.P., Werner, M.W. & Backman, D.E. Sirtf: Capabilities for the study of planetary systems. Astrophys Space Sci 212, 407–415 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984544
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