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Chiron and the Centaurs: escapees from the Kuiper belt

Author(s) -

S. A. Stern,

H. Campins

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

nature

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 15.993

H-Index - 1226

eISSN - 1476-4687

pISSN - 0028-0836

DOI - 10.1038/382507a0

Subject(s) - centaur , neptune , trans neptunian object , solar system , astrobiology , nice model , planet , asteroid , astronomy , outer planets , population , physics , orbit (dynamics) , planetary migration , planetary system , aerospace engineering , engineering , demography , sociology

The Centaurs—a group of objects orbiting chaotically among the giant planets of our Solar System—appear to be a population transitional in size between typical short-period comets and the large Kuiper-belt objects that orbit beyond Neptune. They promise to reveal much about the origin of and interrelationships between the icy bodies of the outer Solar System.

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