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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Disk of Scattered Icy Objects and the Origin of Jupiter-Family Comets

   Duncan and Levison · Science · 1997

   Simulations over 4 billion years produced a disk of scattered icy objects beyond Neptune that could supply Jupiter-family comets, and two newly found objects resemble its predicted members.

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   1. UncheckedA scattered disk beyond Neptune holding as few as about 600 million objects could, the paper says, supply all observed Jupiter-family comets.“A disk currently containing as few as ∼6 × 10 8 objects could supply all of the observed Jupiter-family comets.”