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On Some Characteristics of the Distribution of Perihelia of Long-Period Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

S. Yabushita
S. Yabushita*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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Although the problem of the origin of comets has not yet been settled, there are only two possibilities; one is to regard that comets formed within the solar system when or soon after planets formed, and the second possibility is that comets have been captured from interstellar space by planetary perturbations or by perturbations of the galactic nucleus. To decide upon the possibility, one has to take into account statistical features of cometary orbits.

Type
Part VI: Comets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 81: Dynamics of the Solar System , 1979 , pp. 283 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979 

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