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      The Scattered Disk as the Source of the Jupiter Family Comets

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          A Disk of Scattered Icy Objects and the Origin of Jupiter-Family Comets

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          Orbital integrations carried out for 4 billion years produced a disk of scattered objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. Objects in this disk can be distinguished from Kuiper belt objects by a greater range of eccentricities and inclinations. This disk was formed in the simulations by encounters with Neptune during the early evolution of the outer solar system. After particles first encountered Neptune, the simulations show that about 1 percent of the particles survive in this disk for the age of the solar system. A disk currently containing as few as approximately 6 x 10(8) objects could supply all of the observed Jupiter-family comets. Two recently discovered objects, 1996 RQ20 and 1996 TL66, have orbital elements similar to those predicted for objects in this disk, suggesting that they are thus far the only members of this disk to be identified.
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                Journal
                The Astrophysical Journal
                Astrophysical Journal
                University of Chicago Press
                0004-637X
                1538-4357
                November 2008
                November 2008
                : 687
                : 1
                : 714-725
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                10.1086/591839
                e48ba73a-12d5-47ee-96cd-9d732ec84f36
                © 2008
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