SP-345 Evolution of the Solar System

FIGURE 4.6.1.- Meteor streams, short-period comets, and long-period comets.

 

FIGURE 4.6.1.- Meteor streams, short-period comets, and long-period comets. Retrograde bodies are only found in almost parabolic orbits (e > 0.85). Data from Porter (1961).

 
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