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Galactic Perturbations Influence on Observability of Interstellar Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

H. Prȩtka*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, A. Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland

Abstract

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Some cases of the cometary evolution from the interstellar space to the observability region due to the galactic disk perturbations are shown. Simulated parameters of potentially observable interstellar comets are presented.

Type
Solar System Dynamics
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

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