Capture of the sun's oort cloud from stars in its birth cluster

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5988, 2010, Pages 187-190

  Levison, Harold F ^a   Duncan, Martin J ^b   Brasser, Ramon ^c   Kaufmann, David E ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CLOUD COVER; COMET; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; SOLAR SYSTEM;

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

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; METEOROIDS; PLANETS; SOLAR SYSTEM; STARS, CELESTIAL;

EID: 77954574690     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1187535     Document Type: Article

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33. We thank A. Morbidelli and L. Dones for useful discussions. This work was supported by NASA's Astrobiology Institute through a grant to the Goddard Center for Astrobiology. H.F.L. is grateful to NASA for funding through its Operational Support Services and Outer Planets Research programs. M.J.D. is grateful for the hospitality and financial support of the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University, where some of this work was performed. M.J.D. acknowledges the continuing financial support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada. R.B. thanks Germany's Helmholz Alliance for financial support.