Stellar encounters as the origin of distant Solar System objects in highly eccentric orbits

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7017, 2004, Pages 598-602

  Kenyon, Scott J ^a   Bromley, Benjamin C ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DYNAMICS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ORBITS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

KUIPER BELT; NEPTUNE; STARS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

ORBIT DETERMINATION; PLANET; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; ROTATION; THEORY;

EID: 10344258039     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03136     Document Type: Article

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