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Dynamical Mechanisms for Transferring Comets In and Out of the Oort Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M.J. Valtonen  and
J.Q. Zheng
M.J. Valtonen
Affiliation:
Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, 21500 Piikkiö, Finland
J.Q. Zheng
Affiliation:
Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, 21500 Piikkiö, Finland

Abstract

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We study scenarios where comets are not original members of the Solar System but have been acquired from the surrounding medium through dynamical evolution. This leads to estimates of the present day number density of comets in the interstellar medium which are not in contradiction with observational upper limits. We also consider the dynamical transfer of Oort Cloud comets into short period comets. The process is very sensitive to the inclination of the comet orbit which leads to strong bias in favour of low inclinations in short comet orbits.

Type
Part IV Triple and Many Body Problem
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 132: Instability, Chaos and Predictability in Celestial Mechanics and Stellar Dynamics , 1993 , pp. 265 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Nova Science Publishers 1993

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