A distant planetary-mass solar companion may have produced distant detached objects

Icarus

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 589-601

  Gomes, Rodney S ^a   Matese, John J ^b   Lissauer, Jack J ^c  

^a OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; dynamics; Trans neptunian belt

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748710822     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.05.026     Document Type: Article

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