Sculpting the outer Edgeworth-Kuiper belt: Stellar encounter followed by planetary perturbations

Icarus

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 559-573

  Melita, M D ^a   Larwood, J D ^a   Williams, I P ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Solar System, comets; Trans neptunian objects, origin

Indexed keywords

EID: 14044273603     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.020     Document Type: Article

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