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6 claims from 4 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Capture of Irregular Satellites during Planetary Encounters

   Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický and Morbidelli · The Astronomical Journal · 2007

   The authors propose that irregular moons were captured from the planetesimal disk during close encounters between the outer planets, and test this with numerical simulations.

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   1. UncheckedSimulations suggest planetesimals can be flung into orbit around planets during planet–planet encounters, enough to form Saturn's, Uranus's and Neptune's irregular moons.“Through a series of numerical simulations we show that nearby planetesimals can be deflected into planet-bound orbits during close encounters between planets, and that the overall efficiency of this capture process is large enough to produce populations of observed irregular satellites at Saturn, U…”
   2. UncheckedThe paper finds that the irregular moons' original size distribution must have changed substantially through collisions to give the populations seen today.“Moreover, we find that the original size-frequency distribution of the irregular moons must have significantly evolved by collisions to produce their present populations.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Scientific rationale for Uranus and Neptune in situ explorations

   Mousis, Atkinson, Cavalié et al.

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   1. Unchecked“An atmospheric entry probe targeting the 10-bar level, about 5 scale heights beneath the tropopause, would yield insight into two broad themes: i) the formation history of the ice giants and, in a broader extent, that of the Solar System, and ii) the process…