Debris streams in the solar neighbourhood as relicts from the formation of the Milky Way

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6757, 1999, Pages 53-55

  Heimi, Amina ^a   White, Simon D M ^b   De Zeeuw, P Tim ^a   Zhao, HongSheng ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

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SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033523905     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46980     Document Type: Article

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