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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5227.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5227. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Comets

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A group of comets with broadly similar orbital elements. The distribution of aphelia of members of a comet group peaks at a value corresponding to the distance of a particular major planet from the Sun. Perturbations by that planet have been responsible for changing the diverse original orbits of the comets into those they now occupy. It was once thought that all the major planets possessed comet...

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