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12 claims from 8 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 › Astro and Planetary Science

   Neptune's Migration into a Stirred-Up Kuiper Belt: A Detailed Comparison of Simulations to Observations

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“The more distant of these resonances, such as the 9:4, 7:3, 5:2, and the 3:1, can also capture particles in stable, eccentric orbits beyond 50 AU, in the region of phase space conventionally known as the Scattered Disk.”
   2. Unchecked“Indeed, 90% of the simulated particles that persist over the age of the Solar System in the so-called Scattered Disk zone never had a close encounter with Neptune, but instead were promoted into these eccentric orbits by Neptune's resonances during the migra…

3. 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.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   TRACKING NEPTUNE’S MIGRATION HISTORY THROUGH HIGH-PERIHELION RESONANT TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

   Kaib and Sheppard · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“If Neptune finishes migrating within ~100 Myrs or less, we predict over 90% of high-perihelion objects near the 3:1 MMR will have semimajor axes within 1 AU of each other, very near the modern resonance's center.”

5. 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.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey - Full Data Release: The orbital structure of the Kuiper belt

   Petit, Kavelaars, Gladman et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“The main classical belt (a=40--47 AU) needs to be modeled with at least three components: the `hot' component with a wide inclination distribution and two `cold' components (stirred and kernel) with much narrower inclination distributions.”
   2. Unchecked“The hot component must have a significantly shallower absolute magnitude (Hg) distribution than the other two components.”

7. 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.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Dynamics of the giant planets of the solar system in the gaseous proto-planetary disk and relationship to the current orbital architecture

   Morbidelli, Tsiganis, Crida, Levison and Gomes · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“The only systems that we found to reach a steady state are those in which the planets are locked in a quadruple mean motion resonance (i.e. each planet is in resonance with its neighbor).”
   2. Unchecked“After the disappearance of the gas, and in absence of planetesimals, only two of these six configurations (the least compact ones) are stable for a time of hundreds of millions of years or more.”