Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004pfte.confe...6d&link_type=abstract
Presented at the KITP Conference: Planet Formation: Terrestrial and Extra Solar, Mar 17, 2004, Kavli Institute for Theoretical P
Physics
Scientific paper
This review will focus on the use of the dynamics of observed comets toprovide clues to the properties of the cometary reservoirs from whichthey come. The properties of the reservoirs can in turn be used as cluesto planetary formation processes in the outer solar system. Particular attention will be paid to the Trans-Neptunian scattered disk (SD).It will be shown that the observed properties of the SD are consistent withthose predicted for the remnants of a population of planetesimals scatteredby Neptune during outer planet formation in the early solar system. Such an SDwill be shown to be the plausible source not only of Jupiter Family comets andCentaurs, but also of Halley-type comets (which were previously thought tooriginate in the Oort cloud). Recent simulations of the dynamicalclearing of planetesimals to form the Oort cloud will also be reviewed, aswill the challenges faced in understanding the properties of the Oort cloud.
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