Cometary evidence of a massive body in the outer Oort clouds

Icarus

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 354-366

  Matese, J J ^a   Whitman, P G ^a   Whitmire, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Comets, dynamics; Infrared observations; Jovian planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033209566     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6177     Document Type: Article

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