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5 claims from 2 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

   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.”