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6 claims from 4 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   EVIDENCE FOR A DISTANT GIANT PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

   Batygin and Brown · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

   The authors show distant Kuiper belt objects cluster in physical space, and argue a distant eccentric planet of more than about 10 Earth masses could maintain this alignment.

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   1. UncheckedA distant eccentric planet over ~10 Earth masses, with its perihelion opposite the small bodies', could keep the observed orbital alignment in place.“We find that the observed orbital alignment can be maintained by a distant eccentric planet with mass greater than ~10 Earth masses, whose orbit lies in approximately the same plane as those of the distant Kuiper belt objects, but whose perihelion is 180 degrees away from the perihelia of the minor…”
   2. UncheckedThe proposed distant planet would also explain Sedna-like high-perihelion objects and some highly inclined, far-flung objects whose origin was unclear.“In addition to accounting for the observed orbital alignment, the existence of such a planet naturally explains the presence of high perihelion Sedna-like objects, as well as the known collection of high semimajor axis objects with inclinations between 60 and 150 degrees whose origin was previously…”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Growth of asteroids, planetary embryos, and Kuiper belt objects by chondrule accretion

   Johansen, Low, Lacerda and Bizzarro · Science Advances · 2015

   The paper shows that asteroids can grow mainly by gas-drag-assisted accretion of millimetre-sized chondrules, and extends this to embryos, Kuiper belt objects and terrestrial planet formation.

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   1. UncheckedGrowth of bodies by gas-drag-assisted chondrule accretion sorts chondrules by size in a way the paper says is consistent with chondrites.“The aerodynamical accretion leads to size-sorting of chondrules consistent with chondrites.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   THE ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

   Fraser, Brown, Morbidelli, Parker and Batygin · The Astrophysical Journal · 2014

   The paper measures brightness distributions of hot and cold Kuiper Belt objects from ecliptic surveys, compares them with the Jupiter Trojans, and discusses what the results imply for models of planetesimal formation.

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   1. UncheckedThe cold Kuiper Belt population's brightness distribution is fitted by a bright-end slope of about 1.5 and a break at absolute magnitude about 6.9 (r'-band).“The cold population has a bright-end slope, $α_{\textrm{1}}=1.5_{-0.2}^{+0.4}$, and break magnitude, $H_{\textrm{B}}=6.9_{-0.2}^{+0.1}$ (r'-band).”
   2. UncheckedThe paper estimates the hot (dynamically excited) Kuiper Belt population at about 0.01 Earth masses and the cold (quiescent) one at about 3×10^-4 Earth masses.“We estimate the masses of the hot and cold populations are $\sim0.01$ and $\sim3\times10^{-4} \mbox{ M$_{\bigoplus}$}$.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   1I/‘Oumuamua as an N2 Ice Fragment of an Exo‐Pluto Surface II: Generation of N2 Ice Fragments and the Origin of ‘Oumuamua

   Desch and Jackson · Journal of Geophysical Research Planets · 2021

   The paper argues that N2 ice fragments knocked off Pluto-like bodies could explain 'Oumuamua, and that such fragments may be common around other stars and trace a new type of exoplanet surface.

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   1. UncheckedImpacts on Pluto-like Kuiper belt objects during the early dynamical instability would have ejected about 10^14 fragments, half H2O ice and half N2 ice.“Here we demonstrate that impacts on the surfaces of Pluto-like Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) would have generated and ejected ~10^14 collisional fragments--roughly half of them H2O ice fragments and half of them N2 ice fragments--due to the dynamical instability that depleted the primordial Kuiper bel…”