Neptune scattered planetesimals could have sculpted the primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper belt

Icarus

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 464-468

  Morbidelli, Alessandro ^a   Valsecchi, Giovanni B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

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EID: 0031206106     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5745     Document Type: Article

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