Long-period comets and the Oort cloud

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 822, Issue , 1997, Pages 67-95

  Weissman, Paul R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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ASTRONOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISASTER PLANNING; ENERGY; HAZARD; PROBABILITY; SUN; TIME; VELOCITY;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0030797375     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48335.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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