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34 claims from 20 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Origin of Pluto's Orbit: Implications for the Solar System Beyond Neptune

   Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1995

   The paper proposes that Pluto's orbit arose from resonance capture as Neptune's orbit changed early on, and predicts the resulting orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper predicts that most objects between Neptune and about 50 AU sit in narrow resonance zones with Neptune, chiefly 3:2 and 2:1, with large eccentricities.“Some consequences of this evolution for the present-day dynamical structure of the trans-Neptunian region are: (i) most of the objects in the region beyond Neptune and up to $\sim\!50$ AU exist in very narrow zones located at orbital resonances with Neptune (particularly the 3:2 and the 2:1 resonan…”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Disk of Scattered Icy Objects and the Origin of Jupiter-Family Comets

   Duncan and Levison · Science · 1997

   Simulations over 4 billion years produced a disk of scattered icy objects beyond Neptune that could supply Jupiter-family comets, and two newly found objects resemble its predicted members.

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   1. UncheckedA scattered disk beyond Neptune holding as few as about 600 million objects could, the paper says, supply all observed Jupiter-family comets.“A disk currently containing as few as ∼6 × 10 8 objects could supply all of the observed Jupiter-family comets.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Orbital Evolution of Planets Embedded in a Planetesimal Disk

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“We find that Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune evolve radially outwards as they scatter the planetesimals, while Jupiter's orbit shrinks as it ejects mass.”
   2. Unchecked“Higher-mass disks result in more rapid and extensive planet migration.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   OSSOS. VII. 800+ Trans-Neptunian Objects—The Complete Data Release

   Bannister, Gladman, Kavelaars et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“OSSOS doubles the known population of the non-resonant Kuiper belt, providing 436 TNOs in this region, all with exceptionally high-quality orbits of $a$ uncertainty $σ_{a} \leq 0.1\%$; they show the belt exists from $a \gtrsim 37$ au, with a lower perihelion…
   2. Unchecked“Our 313 resonant TNOs, including 132 plutinos, triple the available characterized sample and include new occupancy of distant resonances out to semi-major axis $a \sim 130$ au.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units

   Trujillo and Sheppard · Nature · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“The detection of 2012 VP113 confirms that Sedna is not an isolated object; instead, both bodies may be members of the inner Oort cloud, whose objects could outnumber all other dynamically stable populations in the Solar System.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   NEPTUNE’S ORBITAL MIGRATION WAS GRAINY, NOT SMOOTH

   Nesvorný and Vokrouhlický · The Astrophysical Journal · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Thus, the non-resonant--to--resonant ratio obtained with the grainy migration is higher, up to ~10 times higher for the range of parameters investigated here, than in a model with smooth migration.”
   2. Unchecked“The grainy migration leads to a narrower distribution of the libration amplitudes in the 3:2 resonance.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Neptune's Migration into a Stirred-Up Kuiper Belt: A Detailed Comparison of Simulations to Observations

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“The more distant of these resonances, such as the 9:4, 7:3, 5:2, and the 3:1, can also capture particles in stable, eccentric orbits beyond 50 AU, in the region of phase space conventionally known as the Scattered Disk.”
   2. Unchecked“Indeed, 90% of the simulated particles that persist over the age of the Solar System in the so-called Scattered Disk zone never had a close encounter with Neptune, but instead were promoted into these eccentric orbits by Neptune's resonances during the migra…

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The planet nine hypothesis

   Batygin, Adams, Brown and Becker · Physics Reports · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“This newly outlined dynamical architecture of the distant solar system points to the existence of a new planet with mass of $m_9\sim 5-10\,M_{\oplus}$, residing on a moderately inclined orbit ($i_9\sim15-25°$) with semi-major axis $a_9\sim 400 - 800\,$AU and…

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   YOUNG SOLAR SYSTEM's FIFTH GIANT PLANET?

   Nesvorný · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“We found that the dynamical simulations starting with a resonant system of four giant planets have a low success rate in matching the present orbits of giant planets, and various other constraints (e.g., survival of the terrestrial planets).”
   2. Unchecked“The dynamical evolution is typically too violent, if Jupiter and Saturn start in the 3:2 resonance, and leads to final systems with fewer than four planets.”
   3. Unchecked“Some of the statistically best results were obtained when assuming that the solar system initially had five giant planets and one ice giant, with the mass comparable to that of Uranus and Neptune, was ejected to interstellar space by Jupiter.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    RETENTION OF A PRIMORDIAL COLD CLASSICAL KUIPER BELT IN AN INSTABILITY-DRIVEN MODEL OF SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION

    Batygin, Brown and Fraser · The Astrophysical Journal · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“We develop a simple analytical model for secular excitation of cold KBOs and show that comparatively fast apsidal precession and nodal recession of Neptune, during the eccentric phase, are essential for preservation of an unexcited state in the cold classica…
    2. Unchecked“We further show that contamination of the hot classical and scattered populations by objects of similar nature to that of cold classicals has been instrumental in shaping the vast physical diversity inherent to the Kuiper belt.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Constraining the Giant Planets’ Initial Configuration from Their Evolution: Implications for the Timing of the Planetary Instability

    Deienno, Morbidelli, Gomes and Nesvorný · The Astronomical Journal · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“We conclude that, although an early instability reproduces more easily the evolution of Neptune required to explain the structure of the Kuiper belt, such evolution is also compatible with a late instability.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    THE ALBEDO-COLOR DIVERSITY OF TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

    Lacerda, Fornasier, Lellouch et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“This color-albedo separation is evidence for a compositional discontinuity in the young solar system.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling

    Jílková, Zwart, Pijloo and Hammer · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“We conclude that they might have been captured in a near miss with a 1.8MSun star that impacted the Sun at ~340au at an inclination with respect to the ecliptic of 17--34deg with a relative velocity at infinity of ~4.3km/s.”
    2. Unchecked“We predict that the Sednitos-region is populated by 930 planetesimals and the inner Oort cloud acquired ~440 planetesimals through the same encounter.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Re-assessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster – II. Probing the inner edge

    Brasser and Schwamb · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“We report that the detached objects 2004 VN112 and 2010 GB174 are likely members of the IOC that were placed there while the Sun was in its birth cluster or during an episode of Solar migration in the Galaxy.”
    2. Unchecked“Based on our simulations we find that the maximum perihelion distance of SD objects is 41 AU when the semi-major axis is higher than 250 AU.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    OSSOS. XV. Probing the Distant Solar System with Observed Scattering TNOs

    Kaib, Pike, Lawler et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Although the number of highly inclined scatterers from the Oort Cloud is ~3 times less than observed, Oort cloud enrichment from the Sun's galactic migration or birth cluster could resolve this.”
    2. Unchecked“Meanwhile, a distant, low-eccentricity 5 Earth-mass planet replicates the observed fraction of highly inclined scatterers, but the overall inclination distribution is more excited than observed.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey - Full Data Release: The orbital structure of the Kuiper belt

    Petit, Kavelaars, Gladman et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“The main classical belt (a=40--47 AU) needs to be modeled with at least three components: the `hot' component with a wide inclination distribution and two `cold' components (stirred and kernel) with much narrower inclination distributions.”
    2. Unchecked“The hot component must have a significantly shallower absolute magnitude (Hg) distribution than the other two components.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    OSSOS: X. How to use a Survey Simulator: Statistical Testing of Dynamical Models Against the Real Kuiper Belt

    Lawler, Kavelaars, Alexandersen et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“However, by carefully keeping track of survey pointings on the sky, detection limits, tracking fractions, and rate cuts, the biases from a survey can be modelled in Survey Simulator software.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The Evidence for Slow Migration of Neptune from the Inclination Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects

    Nesvorný · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“By analyzing the orbital distribution of the implanted bodies in different cases we find that the inclination constraint implies that tau >= 10 Myr and a_{N,0} <= 25 AU.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Origin and Evolution of Short-Period Comets

    Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický, Dones, Levison, Kaib and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“The orbital distribution of ecliptic comets (ECs) is well reproduced in models with Np(2.5)=500 and without P9.”
    2. Unchecked“Np(2.5)>1000 is required to obtain a steady-state population of large active HTCs that is consistent with observations.”
    3. Unchecked“With P9, the inclination distribution of model ECs is wider than the observed one.”

20. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Scenarios for the Origin of the Orbits of the Trans-Neptunian Objects 2000 CR105 and 2003 VB12

    Morbidelli and H. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2004

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    1. Unchecked“Of all these mechanisms, the only one giving satisfactory results is the passage of a star.”
    2. Unchecked“Indeed, our simulations show that the passage of a solar mass star at about 800 AU only perturbs objects with semi-major axes larger than roughly 200 AU to large perihelion distances.”