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6 claims from 4 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The dynamics of Jupiter and Saturn in the gaseous protoplanetary disk

   Morbidelli and Crida · Icarus · 2007

   Simulations suggest Jupiter and Saturn's mutual interactions in a gas disk could have slowed or stopped their inward Type II migration, with links to models of the giant planets' orbits and the Late Heavy Bombardment.

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   1. UncheckedWhen Jupiter and Saturn's gaps in the disk overlap in a 2:3 resonance, the torques on them change sharply and their inward migration slows substantially.“This causes a drastic change in the torque balance for the two planets, which substantially slows down the planets' inward migration.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Accretion of Uranus and Neptune from inward-migrating planetary embryos blocked by Jupiter and Saturn

   Izidoro, Morbidelli, Raymond, Hersant and Pierens · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2015

   N-body simulations including a gas disc suggest Uranus and Neptune could have formed from collisions between planetary embryos beyond Saturn, reproducing their similar masses.

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   1. UncheckedIn simulations, ice giants of similar size to Uranus and Neptune form when planetary embryos beyond Saturn collide with one another.“We show that similar-size ice giants do indeed form by collisions between planetary embryos beyond Saturn.”
   2. UncheckedIn the authors' simulations, ice giants of similar size to Uranus and Neptune form consistently from 5-10 embryos of about 3-6 Earth masses each.“Similar-sized ice giants are consistently reproduced in simulations starting with 5-10 planetary embryos with initial masses of $\sim$3-6 ${\rm M_\oplus}$.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Bombardment History of the Giant Planet Satellites

   Bottke, Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný et al. · The Planetary Science Journal · 2024

   The paper simulates outer solar system bombardment to calculate the oldest surface ages of giant planet moons, and uses the results to weigh competing scenarios for how those moons formed.

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   1. UncheckedIapetus, Hyperion, Phoebe and Oberon have surfaces a few Myr to a few tens of Myr younger than Neptune's entry into the PKB, at 4.52–4.53 Gyr.“Iapetus, Hyperion, Phoebe, and Oberon have surface ages that are a few Myr to a few tens of Myr younger than when Neptune entered the PKB (i.e., they are 4.52–4.53 Gyr old).”
   2. UncheckedThe paper's model gives the oldest surface ages of Callisto, Ganymede, Titan and Europa as 4.1, 3.4, 1.8 and 0.18 billion years, a wide spread.“A much wider range of surface ages are found for the large moons Callisto, Ganymede, Titan, and Europa (4.1, 3.4, 1.8, and 0.18 Gyr old, respectively).”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Volatile Carbon to Oxygen Ratio as a Tracer for the Formation Locations of Interstellar Comets

   Seligman, Rogers, Cabot et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Preferential desorption of CO and CO$_2$ relative to H$_2$O in the interstellar medium implies that measured C/O ratios represent lower limits on the primordial ratios.”