Stellar encounters as the origin of distant Solar System objects in highly eccentric orbits
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 432 (7017) , 598-602
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03136
Abstract
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