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9 claims from 5 papers

1. 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.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   JUMPING NEPTUNE CAN EXPLAIN THE KUIPER BELT KERNEL

   Nesvorný · The Astronomical Journal · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“The 2:1 resonance was at ~44 AU when Neptune reached ~28 AU.”
   2. Unchecked“If Neptune migration was conveniently slow after the jump, the sweeping 2:1 resonance would deplete the population of bodies at ~45-47 AU, thus contributing to the paucity of the low-inclination orbits in this region.”
   3. Unchecked“If Neptune's semimajor axis changed by fraction of AU at this point, perhaps because Neptune was scattered off of another planet, the 2:1 population would have been released at ~44 AU, and would remain there to this day.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Bombardment History of the Giant Planet Satellites

   Bottke, Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný et al. · The Planetary Science Journal · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Iapetus, Hyperion, Phoebe, and Oberon have surface ages that are a few Myr to a few tens of Myr younger than when Neptune entered the PKB (i.e., they are 4.52–4.53 Gyr old).”
   2. Unchecked“A much wider range of surface ages are found for the large moons Callisto, Ganymede, Titan, and Europa (4.1, 3.4, 1.8, and 0.18 Gyr old, respectively).”

4. 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.”

5. 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.”