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On the Relation Between Comets and Meteoroids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

H. Alfvén
H. Alfvén*
Affiliation:
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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In order to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system it is especially important to study the small bodies – asteroids, comets and meteoroids – because in the planetesimal state (preceding the present state) the matter was dispersed.

Type
Part VI/Relationship With Meteors and Minor Planets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 45: The Motion, Evolution of Orbits and Origin of Comets , 1972 , pp. 485 - 486
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1972