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8 claims from 4 papers

1. 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.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   JUMPING NEPTUNE CAN EXPLAIN THE KUIPER BELT KERNEL

   Nesvorný · The Astronomical Journal · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“The 2:1 resonance was at ~44 AU when Neptune reached ~28 AU.”
   2. Unchecked“If Neptune migration was conveniently slow after the jump, the sweeping 2:1 resonance would deplete the population of bodies at ~45-47 AU, thus contributing to the paucity of the low-inclination orbits in this region.”
   3. Unchecked“If Neptune's semimajor axis changed by fraction of AU at this point, perhaps because Neptune was scattered off of another planet, the 2:1 population would have been released at ~44 AU, and would remain there to this day.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   OSSOS. XV. Probing the Distant Solar System with Observed Scattering TNOs

   Kaib, Pike, Lawler et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Although the number of highly inclined scatterers from the Oort Cloud is ~3 times less than observed, Oort cloud enrichment from the Sun's galactic migration or birth cluster could resolve this.”
   2. Unchecked“Meanwhile, a distant, low-eccentricity 5 Earth-mass planet replicates the observed fraction of highly inclined scatterers, but the overall inclination distribution is more excited than observed.”

4. 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.”