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The Effect of the Ellipticity of Jupiter's Orbit on the Capture of Comets to Short-Period Orbits
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
Abstract
Single, random, close encounters of long-period comets with Jupiter are studied. In contrast to earlier work, Jupiter's orbit is taken to be elliptical, but this has no effect on the rate of capture into short-period orbits and neither does it influence the distribution of longitudes of perihelion.
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- Part V/Origin and Evolution of Comets
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