Large scattered planetesimals and the excitation of the small body belts

Icarus

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 367-387

  Petit, Jean Marc ^a   Morbidelli, Alessandro ^a   Valsecchi, Giovanni B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Kuiper belt objects; Origin, solar system; Planetesimals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033211711     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6166     Document Type: Article

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