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15 claims from 8 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Dynamical evidence for an early giant planet instability

   de Sousa, Morbidelli, Raymond, Izidoro, Gomes and Neto · Icarus · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Among self-stable systems -- where the planets are locked in a resonant chain that remains stable in the absence of a planetesimal's disk-- our self-consistently sculpted planetesimal disks nonetheless trigger a giant planet instability with a median instabi…
   2. Unchecked“The simulations that give the latest instability times are those that invoked long-range inward migration of Jupiter from 15 AU or beyond; however these simulations over-excited the inclinations of Kuiper belt objects and are inconsistent with the present-da…

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Early Solar System instability triggered by dispersal of the gaseous disk

   Liu, Raymond and Jacobson · Nature · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“The associated orbital shift caused a dynamical compression of the exterior part of the system, ultimately triggering instability.”
   2. Unchecked“The final orbits of our simulated systems match those of the Solar System for a viable range of astrophysical parameters.”
   3. Unchecked“The giant planet instability therefore took place as the gaseous disk dissipated, constrained by astronomical observations to be a few to ten million years after the birth of the Solar System.”

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

   The Solar System could have formed in a low-viscosity disc: A dynamical study from giant planet migration to the Nice model

   Griveaud, Crida, Petit, Lega and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“The gaps open by giant planets are wider and deeper for lower viscosity, reducing the damping effect of the disc and thus weakening resonant chains.”
   2. Unchecked“In a thin PPD, the four giant planets revert their migration and migrate outwards.”
   3. Unchecked“For three of our resonant chains, about 1% of the final configurations pass the four criteria to fit the Solar System.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The link between Athor and EL meteorites does not constrain the timing of the giant planet instability

   Izidoro, Deienno, Raymond and Clement · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“The probability of implanting Athor analogs when the instability occurs at $\lesssim15$~Myr is at most a factor of $\sim$2 lower than that of an instability occurring at $\sim100$~Myr after the solar system formation.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Resonant Beginning for the Solar System Terrestrial Planets

   Huang, Ormel, Zwart, Kokubo and 易 · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Under the proposed scenario, the current period ratio of 3.05 between Mars and Venus -- devoid of any special significance in traditional late formation models -- naturally arises as a relic of the former resonance chain.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Terrestrial planet formation from a ring: long-term simulations accounting for the giant planet instability

   Woo, Nesvorný, Scora and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“About half of the simulations form a pair of Venus and Earth analogues and, independently, about 10% form a Mars analogue.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Mars' Growth Stunted by an Early Giant Planet Instability

   Clement, Kaib, Raymond and Walsh · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Here we use 800 dynamical simulations to show that an early instability in the outer solar system strongly influences terrestrial planet formation and regularly yields properly sized Mars analogs.”
   2. Unchecked“In these simulations, accretion has begun in the Mars region before the instability, but the dynamical perturbation induced by the giant planets' scattering removes large embryos from Mars' vicinity.”