Reassessing the source of long-period comets

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5945, 2009, Pages 1234-1236

  Kaib, Nathan A ^a   Quinn, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; COMET; ICE SHEET; JUPITER; ORBITAL FORCING; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SIMULATION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CAMBRIAN; CLOUD; EOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUN;

EID: 69949151415     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172676     Document Type: Article

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