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Searches for transplutonian planets using long-period comets

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We discuss the dynamical connection of long-period and nearly parabolic comets with hypothetical transplutonian planets. The statistics includes 792 comets with periods P > 200 years. The orbital plane of the parent planet can be determined from the observed distribution of the perihelia and poles of cometary orbits. The radius of a planetary orbit can be calculated using the Radzievsky-Tisseran criterion. We calculated the minimum distance of each of the 792 orbits to 11 hypothetical planetary orbits. Testing for the kinematic connection of comets with transplutonian planets yielded a negative result. The presence of the nodes of cometary orbits in the transplutonian region is shown to be the result of a geometric effect. We found a high concentration of the nodes and perihelia of cometary orbits in the zone of the terrestrial planets.

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Kuz’michev, V.P. Tomanov, 2006, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 392–400.

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Kuz’michev, V.V., Tomanov, V.P. Searches for transplutonian planets using long-period comets. Astron. Lett. 32, 353–360 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773706050094

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