Changes in the inclination-distribution of long-period comets with the orbital energy

Details Changes in the inclination-distribution of long-period comets with the orbital energy Changes in the inclination-distribution of long-period comets with the orbital energy

Nov 2002

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In: Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets, Meteors - ACM 2002. International Conference, 29 July - 2 August 2002, Berlin, Germany. Ed

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Comets: Inclinations, Long-Period Comets

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We analyze the inclination-distribution of the observed population of long-period comets, split in eight subsamples for different ranges of the reciprocal of the original semimajor axis x. Even though the overall sample of LP comets more or less follows a sinusoidal law, classically attributed to an Oort cloud with spherical symmetry, we find striking differences in the i-distribution for the different ranges of x. We show that the differential action of planetary perturbations on comets in direct and in retrograde orbits can explain such a behavior, except for the "new" comets that show an excess of direct orbits.

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