THE STATISTICAL EFFECTS OF GALACTIC TIDES ON THE OORT CLOUD

Authors
DYBCZYNSKI PA PRETKA H
Citation
Pa. Dybczynski et H. Pretka, THE STATISTICAL EFFECTS OF GALACTIC TIDES ON THE OORT CLOUD, Earth, moon, and planets, 72(1-3), 1996, pp. 13-18
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics","Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Earth, moon, and planets → ACNP
ISSN journal
01679295
Volume
72
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
13 - 18
Database
ISI
SICI code
0167-9295(1996)72:1-3<13:TSEOGT>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
This report is a comment on two papers by Matese and Whitman (1989, 19 92). We discuss here the applicability of uniform probability densitie s for the orbital parameters of the Oort cloud comets.