The Frozen Earth: Binary Scattering Events and the Fate of the Solar System

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 614-627

  Laughlin, Gregory ^a   Adams, Fred C ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Stars and planetary systems; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006754757     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6355     Document Type: Article

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