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4 claims from 3 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   EVIDENCE FOR A DISTANT GIANT PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

   Batygin and Brown · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

   The authors show distant Kuiper belt objects cluster in physical space, and argue a distant eccentric planet of more than about 10 Earth masses could maintain this alignment.

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   1. UncheckedA distant eccentric planet over ~10 Earth masses, with its perihelion opposite the small bodies', could keep the observed orbital alignment in place.“We find that the observed orbital alignment can be maintained by a distant eccentric planet with mass greater than ~10 Earth masses, whose orbit lies in approximately the same plane as those of the distant Kuiper belt objects, but whose perihelion is 180 degrees away from the perihelia of the minor…”
   2. UncheckedThe proposed distant planet would also explain Sedna-like high-perihelion objects and some highly inclined, far-flung objects whose origin was unclear.“In addition to accounting for the observed orbital alignment, the existence of such a planet naturally explains the presence of high perihelion Sedna-like objects, as well as the known collection of high semimajor axis objects with inclinations between 60 and 150 degrees whose origin was previously…”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Disk of Scattered Icy Objects and the Origin of Jupiter-Family Comets

   Duncan and Levison · Science · 1997

   Simulations over 4 billion years produced a disk of scattered icy objects beyond Neptune that could supply Jupiter-family comets, and two newly found objects resemble its predicted members.

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   1. UncheckedA scattered disk beyond Neptune holding as few as about 600 million objects could, the paper says, supply all observed Jupiter-family comets.“A disk currently containing as few as ∼6 × 10 8 objects could supply all of the observed Jupiter-family comets.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Stability of Neptune’s Distant Resonances in the Presence of Planet Nine

   Clement and Sheppard · The Astronomical Journal · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Finally, we simulate the evolution of observed objects with a > 100 au and identify several TNOs that are potentially locked in n:1 resonances with Neptune; including the most distant known resonant candidates 2014 JW80 and 2014 OS394 that appear to be in th…