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18 claims from 9 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets

   Gomes, Levison, Tsiganis and Morbidelli · Nature · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“The asteroid belt was also strongly perturbed, with these objects supplying a significant fraction of the LHB impactors in accordance with recent geochemical evidence.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System

   Tsiganis, Gomes, Morbidelli and Levison · Nature · 2005

   The paper shows that giant planets starting on circular, flat orbits could evolve into today's configuration if Jupiter and Saturn crossed their 1:2 resonance, which migration could cause.

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   1. UncheckedJupiter and Saturn could have crossed their 1:2 orbital resonance as the giant planets migrated through interaction with a disk of planetesimals.“We show that this resonance crossing could have occurred as the giant planets migrated owing to their interaction with a disk of planetesimals.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' model reproduces the giant planets' final orbital distances, eccentricities and mutual inclinations in the Solar System.“Our model reproduces all the important characteristics of the giant planets' orbits, namely their final semimajor axes, eccentricities and mutual inclinations.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early Solar System

   Morbidelli, Levison, Tsiganis and Gomes · Nature · 2005

   Simulations suggest Jupiter's Trojans formed farther out and were captured during giant-planet migration, reproducing their orbital spread and total mass.

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   1. UncheckedJupiter's Trojan asteroids could have been captured briefly, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their 1:2 resonance, when the Trojan region was chaotic.“The capture was possible during a short period of time, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their mutual 1:2 resonance, when the dynamics of the Trojan region were completely chaotic.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' simulations of chaotic capture reproduce the orbits and total mass of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids satisfactorily.“Our simulations of this process satisfactorily reproduce the orbital distribution of the Trojans and their total mass.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Orbital Evolution of Planets Embedded in a Planetesimal Disk

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“We find that Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune evolve radially outwards as they scatter the planetesimals, while Jupiter's orbit shrinks as it ejects mass.”
   2. Unchecked“Higher-mass disks result in more rapid and extensive planet migration.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   YOUNG SOLAR SYSTEM's FIFTH GIANT PLANET?

   Nesvorný · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“We found that the dynamical simulations starting with a resonant system of four giant planets have a low success rate in matching the present orbits of giant planets, and various other constraints (e.g., survival of the terrestrial planets).”
   2. Unchecked“The dynamical evolution is typically too violent, if Jupiter and Saturn start in the 3:2 resonance, and leads to final systems with fewer than four planets.”
   3. Unchecked“Some of the statistically best results were obtained when assuming that the solar system initially had five giant planets and one ice giant, with the mass comparable to that of Uranus and Neptune, was ejected to interstellar space by Jupiter.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Constraining the Giant Planets’ Initial Configuration from Their Evolution: Implications for the Timing of the Planetary Instability

   Deienno, Morbidelli, Gomes and Nesvorný · The Astronomical Journal · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“We conclude that, although an early instability reproduces more easily the evolution of Neptune required to explain the structure of the Kuiper belt, such evolution is also compatible with a late instability.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin and Evolution of Long-period Comets

   Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný and Dones · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“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. Unchecked“Beyond $q = 15$~au, however, the population increases steeply and the isotropy of LPC orbital planes breaks.”

8. 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

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   1. Unchecked“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. Unchecked“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.”

9. 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.”