Formation of Kuiper-belt binaries by dynamical friction and three-body encounters

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6916, 2002, Pages 643-646

  Goldreich, Peter ^a,b   Lithwick, Yoram ^b,c   Sari, Re'Em ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; GRAVITATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; ORBITS; SUN;

BINARY ORBITS;

PLANETS;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENERGY; FORCE; FRICTION; GRAVITY; HISTORY; KUIPER BELT; MASS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

PLUTO;

EID: 0038375000     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01227     Document Type: Article

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