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12 claims from 7 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Origin of Pluto's Orbit: Implications for the Solar System Beyond Neptune

   Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1995

   The paper proposes that Pluto's orbit arose from resonance capture as Neptune's orbit changed early on, and predicts the resulting orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper predicts that most objects between Neptune and about 50 AU sit in narrow resonance zones with Neptune, chiefly 3:2 and 2:1, with large eccentricities.“Some consequences of this evolution for the present-day dynamical structure of the trans-Neptunian region are: (i) most of the objects in the region beyond Neptune and up to $\sim\!50$ AU exist in very narrow zones located at orbital resonances with Neptune (particularly the 3:2 and the 2:1 resonan…”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

   Sedna and the Oort Cloud around a migrating Sun

   Kaib, Roškar and Quinn · Icarus · 2011

   Simulations of Oort Clouds around Sun-like stars in a Milky Way-like disk, allowing for the Sun's migration through the galaxy, suggest Sedna may belong to the Oort Cloud and that the cloud's structure varies widely.

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   1. UncheckedPassing stars help set the Oort Cloud's inner edge, which in these simulations sometimes reaches as far in as Sedna's orbit.“Contrary to previous understanding, we show that field star encounters play a pivotal role in setting the Oort Cloud's extreme inner edge, and due to their stochastic nature this inner edge sometimes extends to Sedna's orbit.”
   2. UncheckedIn simulations, the Sun's migration through the galaxy raises the chance of strong stellar passages, and Sedna-like orbits form around about 20-30% of solar-like stars.“The Sun's galactic migration heightens the chance of powerful stellar passages, and Sedna production occurs around ~20-30% of the solar-like stars we study.”
   3. UncheckedIn these simulations, the Oort Cloud's median distance depends on the closest the Sun came to the galactic centre during its orbital history.“Considering the entire Oort Cloud, we find its median distance depends on the minimum galactocentric distance attained during the Sun's orbital history.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin and Evolution of Long-period Comets

   Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný and Dones · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

   The authors built a numerical model of long-period comets from their birth in a trans-Neptunian disk to the Oort cloud and on to the inner Solar system, then compared its predictions with observations.

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   1. UncheckedThe model reproduces the observed spread of long-period comet orbit sizes when comets fade with a power-law exponent of about 0.6, per Whipple's scheme.“Our results match the observed semimajor axis distribution of LPCs when Whipple's power-law fading scheme with an exponent $κ= 0.6^{+0.1}_{-0.2}$ is adopted.”
   2. UncheckedIn the paper's model, long-period comets with perihelia beyond 15 au become far more numerous and their orbital planes are no longer isotropic.“Beyond $q = 15$~au, however, the population increases steeply and the isotropy of LPC orbital planes breaks.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling

   Jílková, Zwart, Pijloo and Hammer · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015

   The paper argues that the orbits of the Sedna family of distant planetesimals fit a population captured from another star's disc, and reconstructs the close encounter that could have done so.

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   1. UncheckedThe Sedna-family objects might have been captured when a 1.8 solar-mass star passed the Sun at about 340 au, the paper concludes.“We conclude that they might have been captured in a near miss with a 1.8MSun star that impacted the Sun at ~340au at an inclination with respect to the ecliptic of 17--34deg with a relative velocity at infinity of ~4.3km/s.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper predicts that a close stellar encounter would have left about 930 planetesimals in the Sednitos region and about 440 in the inner Oort cloud.“We predict that the Sednitos-region is populated by 930 planetesimals and the inner Oort cloud acquired ~440 planetesimals through the same encounter.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   OSSOS. XV. Probing the Distant Solar System with Observed Scattering TNOs

   Kaib, Pike, Lawler et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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   1. UncheckedSimulated Oort Cloud sources yield about three times fewer highly inclined scattering objects than observed; enriching the cloud might close the gap.“Although the number of highly inclined scatterers from the Oort Cloud is ~3 times less than observed, Oort cloud enrichment from the Sun's galactic migration or birth cluster could resolve this.”
   2. Unchecked“Meanwhile, a distant, low-eccentricity 5 Earth-mass planet replicates the observed fraction of highly inclined scatterers, but the overall inclination distribution is more excited than observed.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Oort cloud Ecology

   Zwart, Torres, Cai and Brown · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Planet migration or chaotic orbital reorganization occurring while the Solar System is still a cluster member is, according to our model, inconsistent with the presence of the Oort cloud.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   An estimate of resident time of the Oort Cloud new comets in planetary region

   Itô and Higuchi · Planetary and Space Science · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“We also found that the so-called planet barrier works when the initial orbital inclination of the comets is small.”