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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early Solar System

   Morbidelli, Levison, Tsiganis and Gomes · Nature · 2005

   Simulations suggest Jupiter's Trojans formed farther out and were captured during giant-planet migration, reproducing their orbital spread and total mass.

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   1. UncheckedJupiter's Trojan asteroids could have been captured briefly, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their 1:2 resonance, when the Trojan region was chaotic.“The capture was possible during a short period of time, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their mutual 1:2 resonance, when the dynamics of the Trojan region were completely chaotic.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' simulations of chaotic capture reproduce the orbits and total mass of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids satisfactorily.“Our simulations of this process satisfactorily reproduce the orbital distribution of the Trojans and their total mass.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Numerical estimation of the capture ability of Neptunian mean motion resonances

   Li, Zhou and Zhang · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2026

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   1. Unchecked“For a specific p:q MMR, the small bodies can be captured only when their eccentricities surpass a certain threshold, which increases with faster migration rates, greater distances of MMRs, and higher resonance orders.”
   2. Unchecked“On the other hand, as long as a particle's eccentricity is suitable, its capture efficiency shows little dependence on the migration rate; instead, it mainly depends on the p value and heliocentric distance, decaying exponentially as either parameter increas…