Star passages through the Oort cloud

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 25-30

  Weissman, Paul R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet showers; Oort cloud; Stellar perturbations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002215932     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00117498     Document Type: Article

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