Reassessing the Source of Long-Period Comets
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Reassessing the source of long-period comets.
We present numerical simulations to model the production of observable long-period comets (LPCs) from the Oort Cloud, a vast reservoir of icy bodies surrounding the Sun. We show that inner Oort Cloud objects can penetrate Jupiter's orbit via a largely unexplored dynamical pathway, and they are an important, if not the dominant, source of known LPCs. We use this LPC production to place observati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172676