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17 claims from 8 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units

   Trujillo and Sheppard · Nature · 2014

   The authors report 2012 VP113, a second distant object like Sedna, with a closest approach to the Sun of 80 AU, and suggest both may belong to an inner Oort cloud.

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   1. UncheckedA second Sedna-like body, 2012 VP113, suggests Sedna is not alone and both may belong to an inner Oort cloud that could be very populous.“The detection of 2012 VP113 confirms that Sedna is not an isolated object; instead, both bodies may be members of the inner Oort cloud, whose objects could outnumber all other dynamically stable populations in the Solar System.”

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

   Reassessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster

   Brasser, Duncan, Levison, Schwamb and Brown · Icarus · 2011

   Simulations of the Sun in an embedded birth cluster show an inner Oort cloud forming with edges at similar distances in all cases, in a way consistent with Sedna's existence.

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   1. UncheckedIn the simulated inner Oort clouds, Sedna sits at the very inner edge: about the innermost 2% for Plummer cluster models and 5% for Hernquist models.“All inner Oort clouds formed are consistent with the existence of (90377) Sedna, an inner Oort cloud dwarf planetoid, at the inner edge of the cloud: Sedna tends to be at the innermost 2% for Plummer models, while it is 5% for Hernquist models.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   NEW EXTREME TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS: TOWARD A SUPER-EARTH IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM

   Sheppard and Trujillo · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

   A survey for extreme solar system objects found new distant bodies whose orbits cluster in ways the authors say are further evidence of an unknown massive planet in the outer solar system.

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   1. UncheckedTwo newly found distant objects, 2014 SR349 and 2013 FT28, orbit far beyond Neptune, with orbits over 150 AU wide and closest approaches beyond 40 AU.“Two new objects, 2014 SR349 and 2013 FT28, are extreme detached trans-Neptunian objects, with a>150 AU and perihelia well beyond Neptune (q>40 AU).”
   2. UncheckedThe authors report finding 2014 FE72, the first known outer Oort cloud object whose closest approach to the Sun lies beyond Neptune's orbit.“We also discovered the first outer Oort cloud object with a perihelion beyond Neptune, 2014 FE72.”
   3. UncheckedWith 2013 FT28 added, the paper finds the longitude of perihelion correlates significantly with argument of perihelion and orbit pole angle in extreme objects.“Finally, with the discovery of 2013 FT28, we find that the longitude of perihelion is significantly correlated with the argument of perihelion and orbit pole angle for all extreme objects.”

5. 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.”

6. 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

   Simulations of the inner Oort cloud and scattered disc, with late giant planet migration, were used to test whether three detached objects belong to the inner Oort cloud or the Kuiper Belt's scattered disc.

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   1. UncheckedTwo distant detached objects, 2004 VN112 and 2010 GB174, are likely inner Oort cloud members placed there in the Sun's birth cluster or during Solar migration.“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. UncheckedIn the authors' simulations, scattered disc objects with semi-major axes above 250 AU never have perihelia beyond about 41 AU.“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.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Is There an Earth-like Planet in the Distant Kuiper Belt?

   Lykawka and Itô · The Astronomical Journal · 2023

   Using N-body simulations checked against survey data, the authors propose a hypothetical distant Earth-like planet that could account for key orbital patterns of trans-Neptunian objects beyond about 50 au.

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   1. UncheckedSimulations suggest a distant, inclined Earth-like planet of about 1.5-3 Earth masses could explain several odd features of the distant Kuiper Belt.“We determined that an Earth-like planet (m ~ 1.5-3 Earth masses) located on a distant (semimajor axis a ~ 250-500 au, perihelion q ~ 200 au) and inclined (i ~ 30 deg) orbit can explain three fundamental properties of the distant Kuiper Belt: a prominent population of TNOs with orbits beyond Neptune…”
   2. UncheckedThe proposed distant Kuiper Belt planet is compatible with known TNOs that have stayed stable for billions of years in several Neptune resonances.“Furthermore, the proposed KBP is compatible with the existence of identified Gyr-stable TNOs in the 2:1, 5:2, 3:1, 4:1, 5:1, and 6:1 Neptunian mean motion resonances.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Peculiar orbits and asymmetries in extreme trans-Neptunian space

   Marcos and Marcos · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2021

   The authors applied machine learning and nodal-distance analysis to 40 known extreme trans-Neptunian objects, finding possible clusters, close orbital approaches and an asymmetry that may reflect external perturbations.

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   1. UncheckedMachine-learning clustering of the 40 known extreme trans-Neptunian objects suggests they may belong to four different populations.“Machine-learning techniques show that the known ETNOs may belong to four different populations.”
   2. Unchecked“Results from the analysis of the distribution of nodal distances show that 41 per cent of the known ETNOs have at least one mutual nodal distance smaller than 1.45 au (1st percentile of the distribution), perhaps hinting at past interactions.”
   3. UncheckedKnown extreme trans-Neptunian objects show a strongly significant imbalance between pairs with small ascending and small descending nodal distances.“In addition, the known ETNOs exhibit a highly statistically significant asymmetry between the distributions of object pairs with small ascending and descending nodal distances that might be indicative of a response to external perturbations.”