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8 claims from 5 papers

1. 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.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The formation of Uranus and Neptune in the Jupiter–Saturn region of the Solar System

   Thommes, Duncan and Levison · Nature · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“Here we report the results of model calculations that demonstrate that such cores will have been gravitationally scattered outwards as Jupiter, and perhaps Saturn, accreted nebular gas.”

3. 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.”

4. 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.”

5. 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.”