Reassessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster

Icarus

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-19

  Brasser, R ^a   Duncan, M J ^b   Levison, H F ^c   Schwamb, M E ^d   Brown, M E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c South West Research Institute ^*  (United States)

^d Yale University   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets, Dynamics; Origin, Solar System; Planetary dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055138240     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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