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5 claims from 3 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   RETENTION OF A PRIMORDIAL COLD CLASSICAL KUIPER BELT IN AN INSTABILITY-DRIVEN MODEL OF SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION

   Batygin, Brown and Fraser · The Astrophysical Journal · 2011

   The paper shows that the cold classical Kuiper belt can survive an instability-driven phase of solar system formation, with its dynamical structure reproduced, as analytical work and N-body simulations indicate.

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   1. UncheckedA simple analytical model suggests fast precession of Neptune's orbit while eccentric is essential for keeping the cold Kuiper belt's orbits unexcited.“We develop a simple analytical model for secular excitation of cold KBOs and show that comparatively fast apsidal precession and nodal recession of Neptune, during the eccentric phase, are essential for preservation of an unexcited state in the cold classical region.”
   2. UncheckedObjects like the cold classicals, mixed into the hot classical and scattered populations, helped shape the wide physical diversity of the Kuiper belt.“We further show that contamination of the hot classical and scattered populations by objects of similar nature to that of cold classicals has been instrumental in shaping the vast physical diversity inherent to the Kuiper belt.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   1I/‘Oumuamua as an N2 Ice Fragment of an Exo‐Pluto Surface II: Generation of N2 Ice Fragments and the Origin of ‘Oumuamua

   Desch and Jackson · Journal of Geophysical Research Planets · 2021

   The paper argues that N2 ice fragments knocked off Pluto-like bodies could explain 'Oumuamua, and that such fragments may be common around other stars and trace a new type of exoplanet surface.

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   1. UncheckedImpacts on Pluto-like Kuiper belt objects during the early dynamical instability would have ejected about 10^14 fragments, half H2O ice and half N2 ice.“Here we demonstrate that impacts on the surfaces of Pluto-like Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) would have generated and ejected ~10^14 collisional fragments--roughly half of them H2O ice fragments and half of them N2 ice fragments--due to the dynamical instability that depleted the primordial Kuiper bel…”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Capture of Trojans by Jumping Jupiter

   Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We find that the capture probability is (6-8)x10^-7 for each particle in the original transplanetary disk, implying that the disk contained (3-4)x10^7 planetesimals with absolute magnitude H<9 (corresponding to diameter D=80 km for a 7% albedo).”
   2. Unchecked“The jump capture is potentially capable of explaining the observed asymmetry in the number of leading and trailing Trojans.”