The evolution of comets in the Oort cloud and Kuiper belt

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6949, 2003, Pages 639-642

  Stern, S Alan ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; PLANETS; SUN;

COMETS;

ASTRONOMY;

COMET;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COMET; COSMOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; METEOROIDS; PHOTONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0041737764     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01725     Document Type: Article

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