Monte Carlo simulations of oort cloud comets: The influence of mantle blow-off on the inclination distribution of Jupiter family

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 239-244

  Nurmi, P ^a   Valtonen, M J ^a   Zheng, J Q ^a   Mikkola, S ^a   Rickman, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b BOX 515   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Comets; Jupiter family; Simulations

Indexed keywords

COMET;

EID: 0031291463     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006281618542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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