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scattered disk

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comet
Dynamics
…Jupiter-family comets is called the scattered disk, Kuiper belt comets that are in more inclined and eccentric orbits but with perihelia close to Neptune. Neptune can gravitationally scatter comets from the scattered disk inward to become Jupiter-family comets or outward to the Oort cloud.
…Jupiter-family comets is called the scattered disk, Kuiper belt comets that are in more inclined and eccentric orbits but with perihelia close to Neptune. Neptune can gravitationally scatter comets from the scattered disk inward to become Jupiter-family comets or outward to the Oort cloud.