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5 claims from 3 papers

1. 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.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Inclination Distribution of the Kuiper Belt

   Brown · The Astronomical Journal · 2001

   Using the inclination and discovery latitude of 379 known Kuiper belt objects, the paper derives an unbiased inclination distribution for the belt and for its dynamical classes.

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   1. UncheckedThe spread of Kuiper belt orbital tilts is well fitted by sin i times a sum of two Gaussians, with widths of about 2.6° and 15°.“The inclination distribution of all KBOs is well fitted by sin i multiplied by a sum of two Gaussians with widths 2 6 and 15° ± 1°.”
   2. UncheckedFor the inclination distribution found, the Kuiper belt covers an effective sky area of 8100 square degrees, with a latitude FWHM of 12.5° ± 3.5°.“For this inclination distribution, the Kuiper belt has an effective area of 8100 deg 2 and a FWHM of 12.5° ± 3.5° in latitude.”

3. 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

   Simulations of Kuiper belt formation as Neptune migrates into a planetesimal disk suggest that slow migration is needed to reproduce the observed spread of orbital inclinations.

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   1. UncheckedIn the paper's simulations, matching the Kuiper belt's observed orbital tilts requires Neptune to migrate slowly (tau of at least 10 Myr) from 25 AU or closer.“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.”