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10 claims from 6 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   EVIDENCE FROM THE ASTEROID BELT FOR A VIOLENT PAST EVOLUTION OF JUPITER'S ORBIT

   Morbidelli, Brasser, Gomes, Levison and Tsiganis · The Astronomical Journal · 2010

   The authors use the asteroid belt's present structure to test how the giant planets migrated, and find that a sudden 'jumping-Jupiter' evolution fits it better than slow migration.

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   1. Unchecked“Our results suggest that the total mass and dynamical excitation of the asteroid belt before migration were comparable to those currently observed.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper's results imply that before the giant planets migrated, Jupiter's and Saturn's orbits were much less eccentric (less elliptical) than today's.“Moreover, they imply that, before migration, the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn were much less eccentric than the current ones.”

2. 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

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   1. Unchecked“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 classica…
   2. Unchecked“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.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   INSTABILITY-DRIVEN DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION MODEL OF A PRIMORDIALLY FIVE-PLANET OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM

   Batygin, Brown and Betts · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“Particularly, our simulations demonstrate that the eigenmodes which characterize the outer solar system's secular dynamics can be closely matched with a 5-planet model.”
   2. Unchecked“Furthermore, provided that the ejection timescale of the extra planet is short, orbital excitation of a primordial cold classical Kuiper belt can also be avoided in this scenario.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Outer Solar System Possibly Shaped by a Stellar Fly-by

   Pfalzner, Bhandare, Vincke and Lacerda · The Astrophysical Journal · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“A fly-by also naturally explains the puzzling fact that Neptune has a higher mass than Uranus.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Evidence for Slow Migration of Neptune from the Inclination Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects

   Nesvorný · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“By analyzing the orbital distribution of the implanted bodies in different cases we find that the inclination constraint implies that tau >= 10 Myr and a_{N,0} <= 25 AU.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Fragility of the Terrestrial Planets During a Giant Planet Instability

   Kaib and Chambers · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“There is less than a ~5% chance that the terrestrial planet orbits will have a level of excitation comparable to the observed orbits.”
   2. Unchecked“If we factor in the probability that the outer planetary orbits are well-replicated, we find a probability of 1% or less that the orbital architectures of the inner and outer planets are simultaneously reproduced in the same system.”