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Comment by pfdietz

15 days ago

Estimates for sputtering of dust grains are much faster than this.

Granted, there is also growth of dust grains. But surfaces from which atoms can be ejected by UV photons will erode.

Some notes: https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~draine/dust/Draine_IPMU_Lec...

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