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The hypothesis suggested by Guliev on transneptunian objects as sources of comets is considered. The motion equations for 137 near-parabolic comets over a time interval of 5000 years were numerically integrated. No interaction between 78 comets and the transneptunian object 2003 UB 313 has been revealed: the comets were farther than 3 AU from it. It has been shown that 59 comets—candidates to Pluto’s family-approached Pluto at a distance larger than 0.7 AU. The fulfilled analysis allows us to conclude that Guliev’s hypothesis on transneptunian objects as sources of comets is groundless.
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Original Russian Text © O.V. Kalinicheva, V.P. Tomanov, 2009, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2009, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 355–363.
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Kalinicheva, O.V., Tomanov, V.P. On the hypothesis of the genetic connection of comets with Pluto and the transneptunian object 2003 UB 313. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 25, 243–248 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S088459130905002X
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