Gravitationally unbound comets move in predominantly retrograde orbits

Details Gravitationally unbound comets move in predominantly retrograde orbits Gravitationally unbound comets move in predominantly retrograde orbits

Aug 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991natur.352..506m&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 352, Aug. 8, 1991, p. 506-508. Research supported by NASA.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comets, Gravitational Effects, Oort Cloud, Orbit Perturbation, Astronomical Catalogs, Elliptical Orbits, Solar System

Scientific paper

It is reported that unbound comets are more likely to move in retrograde
orbits. It is suggested that this anomaly comes about because of the
omission from the orbital energy determination of nongravitational
effects arising from enhanced volatility.

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