Kuiper belt objects: Relics from the accretion disk of the sun

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2002, Pages 63-101

  Luu, Jane X ^a   Jewitt, David C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Kuiper Belt; Solar system formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036406522     PISSN: 00664146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.astro.40.060401.093818     Document Type: Review

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