Tidal imprint of distant galactic matter on the Oort comet cloud

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 472, Issue 1 PART II, 1996, Pages

  Matese, John ^a   Whitmire, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets: general; Galaxy: center; Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Solar neighborhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444446975     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310348     Document Type: Article

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