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Current concepts of the origin and evolution of comets are reviewed. The place of their formation from which they have been delivered into the Oort reservoir is still an open problem, but the region of the outermost planets appears most probable. The interplay of stellar and planetary perturbations can be traced by model computations which reveal both the general trends and the variety of individual evolutionary paths. The present structure of the system of comets is controlled by the dynamical evolution of its individual members limited by their physical aging by disintegration. Where the lifetimes are short, as in the Jupiter family of short-period comets, an equilibrium between elimination and replenishment is established. The role of different destructive processes and the resulting survival times are discussed.
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Kresák, Ľ. (1982). Dynamical Evolution and Disintegration of Comets. In: Fricke, W., Teleki, G. (eds) Sun and Planetary System. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 96. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7846-1_95
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