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- who: Valsecchi G. B. et al. from the IAPS-INAF, via Fosso del Cavaliere, Roma, Italy have published the article: Direct-retrograde orbit flips at planetary close encounters - The role of the Tisserand parameter, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 15/07/2022
- what: The authors show how to identify among the known asteroids and comets on direct orbits those that can flip to retrograde motion due to an encounter with an outer planet. Among the many results by Rickman et_al , those for the comets that had flipped from direct to retrograde orbits were the starting . . .
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