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Keyword: Late Heavy Bombardment ×Clear all

10 claims from 6 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets

   Gomes, Levison, Tsiganis and Morbidelli · Nature · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“The asteroid belt was also strongly perturbed, with these objects supplying a significant fraction of the LHB impactors in accordance with recent geochemical evidence.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System

   Tsiganis, Gomes, Morbidelli and Levison · Nature · 2005

   The paper shows that giant planets starting on circular, flat orbits could evolve into today's configuration if Jupiter and Saturn crossed their 1:2 resonance, which migration could cause.

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   1. UncheckedJupiter and Saturn could have crossed their 1:2 orbital resonance as the giant planets migrated through interaction with a disk of planetesimals.“We show that this resonance crossing could have occurred as the giant planets migrated owing to their interaction with a disk of planetesimals.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' model reproduces the giant planets' final orbital distances, eccentricities and mutual inclinations in the Solar System.“Our model reproduces all the important characteristics of the giant planets' orbits, namely their final semimajor axes, eccentricities and mutual inclinations.”

3. 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.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Dynamical evidence for an early giant planet instability

   de Sousa, Morbidelli, Raymond, Izidoro, Gomes and Neto · Icarus · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Among self-stable systems -- where the planets are locked in a resonant chain that remains stable in the absence of a planetesimal's disk-- our self-consistently sculpted planetesimal disks nonetheless trigger a giant planet instability with a median instabi…
   2. Unchecked“The simulations that give the latest instability times are those that invoked long-range inward migration of Jupiter from 15 AU or beyond; however these simulations over-excited the inclinations of Kuiper belt objects and are inconsistent with the present-da…

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Evidence for Very Early Migration of the Solar System Planets from the Patroclus-Menoetius binary Jupiter Trojan

   Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický, Bottke and Levison · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“This constraint implies that the planetary migration is unrelated to the formation of the youngest lunar basins.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Mars' Growth Stunted by an Early Giant Planet Instability

   Clement, Kaib, Raymond and Walsh · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Here we use 800 dynamical simulations to show that an early instability in the outer solar system strongly influences terrestrial planet formation and regularly yields properly sized Mars analogs.”
   2. Unchecked“In these simulations, accretion has begun in the Mars region before the instability, but the dynamical perturbation induced by the giant planets' scattering removes large embryos from Mars' vicinity.”