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International audience
International audience
Icarus, 204, pp. 558-573 (2009)
International audience
Icarus, 202, pp. 310-315 (2009)
Born as ice-rich planetesimals, cometary nuclei were gravitationally scattered onto their current orbits in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud during the giant planets' dynamical instability in the early stages of our Solar System's history. Here, we model the thermal evolution of planetesimals during and after the giant planet instability. We...