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SUBMITTER: Meech KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4928888 | biostudies-other | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Meech Karen J KJ Yang Bin B Kleyna Jan J Hainaut Olivier R OR Berdyugina Svetlana S Keane Jacqueline V JV Micheli Marco M Morbidelli Alessandro A Wainscoat Richard J RJ
Science advances 20160429 4
We have observed C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS), a recently discovered object on a cometary orbit coming from the Oort cloud that is physically similar to an inner main belt rocky S-type asteroid. Recent dynamical models successfully reproduce the key characteristics of our current solar system; some of these models require significant migration of the giant planets, whereas others do not. These models provide different predictions on the presence of rocky material expelled from the inner solar system in ...[more]