The formation of Kuiper-belt binaries through exchange reactions

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6974, 2004, Pages 518-520

  Funato, Yoko ^a   Makino, Junichiro ^a   Hut, Piet ^b   Kokubo, Elichiro ^c   Kinoshita, Dalsuke ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; ORBITS; PLANETS;

BINARIES; TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS (TNO);

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY; MASS; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASTEROIDEA; NEPTUNIA;

EID: 1142286660     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02323     Document Type: Article

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