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In this paper we consider orbital element distributions for comets moving on admissible orbits in the Oort cloud and distributions for some functions that depend on the orbital elements. Moreover, we find the probability of an event that an arbitrarily chosen admissible orbit belongs to the set Γ(r) of orbital elements and the distribution of circular velocities in the cloud.
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Serafin, R.A. Orbital element distributions in the Oort cloud. Celestial Mech Dyn Astr 47, 37–56 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00052973
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