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Effects of Multiple Planetary Encounters on Kuiper Belt Objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Ştefan Berinde
Ştefan Berinde*
Affiliation:
Babeş-Bolyai University, Astronomical Observatory, Cireşilor 19, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Nowadays many attempts are made to establish a qualitative and a quantitative connection between Kuiper Belt Population and Jupiter Family Comets. Basically, this can be thought as a diffusion process throughout the outer Solar System due to multiple close encounters with the giant planets. But, following the path of a body in such a process is not an easy task to be approached analytically nor numerically, because the motion is very chaotic and spread over a long time. A statistical approach seems to be a reasonable way and is the purpose of this paper.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 12: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 2000 , 2002 , pp. 243 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2002

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