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11 claims from 6 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units

   Trujillo and Sheppard · Nature · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“The detection of 2012 VP113 confirms that Sedna is not an isolated object; instead, both bodies may be members of the inner Oort cloud, whose objects could outnumber all other dynamically stable populations in the Solar System.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   YOUNG SOLAR SYSTEM's FIFTH GIANT PLANET?

   Nesvorný · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“We found that the dynamical simulations starting with a resonant system of four giant planets have a low success rate in matching the present orbits of giant planets, and various other constraints (e.g., survival of the terrestrial planets).”
   2. Unchecked“The dynamical evolution is typically too violent, if Jupiter and Saturn start in the 3:2 resonance, and leads to final systems with fewer than four planets.”
   3. Unchecked“Some of the statistically best results were obtained when assuming that the solar system initially had five giant planets and one ice giant, with the mass comparable to that of Uranus and Neptune, was ejected to interstellar space by Jupiter.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   RETENTION OF A PRIMORDIAL COLD CLASSICAL KUIPER BELT IN AN INSTABILITY-DRIVEN MODEL OF SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION

   Batygin, Brown and Fraser · The Astrophysical Journal · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“We develop a simple analytical model for secular excitation of cold KBOs and show that comparatively fast apsidal precession and nodal recession of Neptune, during the eccentric phase, are essential for preservation of an unexcited state in the cold classica…
   2. Unchecked“We further show that contamination of the hot classical and scattered populations by objects of similar nature to that of cold classicals has been instrumental in shaping the vast physical diversity inherent to the Kuiper belt.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Outer Solar System Possibly Shaped by a Stellar Fly-by

   Pfalzner, Bhandare, Vincke and Lacerda · The Astrophysical Journal · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“A fly-by also naturally explains the puzzling fact that Neptune has a higher mass than Uranus.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Oort cloud Ecology

   Zwart, Torres, Cai and Brown · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Planet migration or chaotic orbital reorganization occurring while the Solar System is still a cluster member is, according to our model, inconsistent with the presence of the Oort cloud.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Solar System could have formed in a low-viscosity disc: A dynamical study from giant planet migration to the Nice model

   Griveaud, Crida, Petit, Lega and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“The gaps open by giant planets are wider and deeper for lower viscosity, reducing the damping effect of the disc and thus weakening resonant chains.”
   2. Unchecked“In a thin PPD, the four giant planets revert their migration and migrate outwards.”
   3. Unchecked“For three of our resonant chains, about 1% of the final configurations pass the four criteria to fit the Solar System.”