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The Effects of Fractal Molecular Clouds on the Dynamical Evolution of Oort Cloud Comets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Thesis (Master, Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy) -- Queen's University, 2009-09-21 13:05:17.527The Oort Cloud (OC) is a roughly spherical cloud of comets surrounding the solar system, stretching from well beyond the orbit of Neptune ...
Babcock, Carla
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The Oort Cloud and long-period comets

open access: yes, 2014
This review starts with a brief historical overview of the subject, after which some recent papers attempting to improve the understanding of comet injection from the Oort Cloud and the origin of new comets are discussed. Special attention is paid to the
Rickman, Hans,
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88th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2026: Abstracts

open access: yes
Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue S1, Page S48-S551, August 2026.
wiley   +1 more source

A two-stage formation process for the Oort comet cloud and its implications

open access: yes, 2008
Aims. The aim is to check whether the Nice model – which refers to an initially compact configuration of the giant planets that lasted for about 700 Myr and eventually became unstable when Jupiter and Saturn crossed their 2:1 mean motion resonance – is ...
R. Brasser
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Exocomets size distribution in the [Formula: see text] Pictoris planetary system. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2022
Lecavelier des Etangs A   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GANBISS: a new GPU accelerated N-body code for binary star systems. [PDF]

open access: yesCelest Mech Dyn Astron, 2023
Zimmermann M, Pilat-Lohinger E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Chaos in the inert Oort cloud

open access: yes, 2019
International audienceContext. Distant trans-Neptunian objects are subject to planetary perturbations and galactic tides. The former decrease with the distance, while the latter increase.
Arika Higuchi   +7 more
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