Collisions in the Oort Cloud

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Mar 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988icar...73..499s&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), 73, March 1988, p. 499-507.

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Collision Rates, Comet Tails, Molecular Clouds, Oort Cloud, Star Formation, Transfer Orbits, Computational Astrophysics, Cross Sections, Kinetic Theory, Orbital Velocity, Solar System, Spatial Distribution

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The present assessment of the consequentiality of physical collisions between Oort Cloud objects by a first-generation model indicates that natural power-law population structures produce significant numbers of collisions between each comet and smaller objects over the age of the solar system. These collisions are held to constitute a feedback mechanism for small debris production. The impacts yield extensive comet surface evolution in the cloud, in conditions where the number of small orbiting objects conforms to the standard power-law populations.

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