Kuiper belt objects

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue , 1999, Pages 287-312

  Jewitt, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Neptune; Outer solar system; Planet formation; Pluto; Short period comets

Indexed keywords

PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

EID: 0033385160     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.27.1.287     Document Type: Article

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