Oort cloud comet perihelion asymmetries: Galactic tide, shower or observational bias?

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 77-87

  Matese, John J ^a   Whitman, Patrick G ^a   Whitmire, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet showers; Galactic tide; Observational selection effects; Oort comet cloud

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042233439     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008370131320     Document Type: Article

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