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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Terrestrial planet and asteroid belt formation by Jupiter–Saturn chaotic excitation

   Lykawka and Itô · Scientific Reports · 2023

   Simulations suggest that chaotic excitation from a near-resonant Jupiter–Saturn can narrow the inner disk, allowing formation of the terrestrial planets and the asteroid belt.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' simulations, a near-resonant Jupiter–Saturn pairing could typically clear a massive disk beyond about 1.5 au within 5–10 million years.“Our simulations showed that this mechanism could typically deplete a massive disk beyond ~1.5 au on a 5-10 Myr timescale.”
   2. UncheckedIn these simulations, adding an inner disk component within about 0.8–0.9 au let several systems form analogues of all four terrestrial planets at once.“Adding an inner region disk component within ~0.8-0.9 au allowed several terrestrial systems to simultaneously form analogues of the four terrestrial planets.”
   3. UncheckedIn the authors' simulations, the model asteroid belt matched the real belt's orbital structure, small mass and S-, C- and D/P-type composition classes.“Finally, our model asteroid belt explained the asteroid belt's orbital structure, small mass and taxonomy (S-, C- and D/P-types).”

2. 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

   Using 800 simulations, the authors show that an early giant planet instability can shape terrestrial planet formation and reproduce Mars' small mass alongside the outer solar system.

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   1. UncheckedIn 800 simulations, an early instability among the giant planets strongly shaped terrestrial planet formation and often produced Mars-sized planets.“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. UncheckedIn the authors' simulations, an early giant planet instability scatters large embryos away from Mars' region after Mars-region accretion has already begun.“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.”