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The Effect of the Ellipticity of Jupiter's Orbit on the Capture of Comets to Short-Period Orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

E. Everhart
E. Everhart*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, University of Denver, Denver, Colo., U.S.A.

Abstract

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Single, random, close encounters of long-period comets with Jupiter are studied. In contrast to earlier work, Jupiter's orbit is taken to be elliptical, but this has no effect on the rate of capture into short-period orbits and neither does it influence the distribution of longitudes of perihelion.

Type
Part V/Origin and Evolution of Comets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 45: The Motion, Evolution of Orbits and Origin of Comets , 1972 , pp. 360 - 363
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1972 

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