Chiron and the Centaurs: Escapees from the Kuiper belt

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关键词: SOLAR-SYSTEM;    5145-PHOLUS;    DISCOVERY;   

DOI  :  10.1038/382507a0

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

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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