The plane of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt

Icarus

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-26

  Collander Brown, Simon J ^a   Melita, Mario D ^b   Williams, Iwan P ^b   Fitzsimmons, Alan ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Orbits; Origin, solar system; Planetary dynamics; Transneptunian objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037354411     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(02)00061-1     Document Type: Review

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