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Conférence - David Nesvorný : Following Comets to Their Distant Source Reservoirs and Back
Alessandro Morbidelli
Chaire Chaire Formation planétaire : de la Terre aux exoplanètes
Collège de France
Année 2025-2026
David Nesvorný
Conférence - David Nesvorný : Following Comets to Their Distant Source Reservoirs and Back
David Nesvorný
Southwest Research Institute, USA
Résumé
Comets are icy bodies that originate in the trans-Neptunian region and evolve into the inner Solar System, where they become active due to the sublimation of water ice triggered by solar heating. We describe dynamical models that trace the implantation of comets into their distant source reservoirs during the early…
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