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7 claims from 4 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Early Solar System instability triggered by dispersal of the gaseous disk

   Liu, Raymond and Jacobson · Nature · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“The associated orbital shift caused a dynamical compression of the exterior part of the system, ultimately triggering instability.”
   2. Unchecked“The final orbits of our simulated systems match those of the Solar System for a viable range of astrophysical parameters.”
   3. Unchecked“The giant planet instability therefore took place as the gaseous disk dissipated, constrained by astronomical observations to be a few to ten million years after the birth of the Solar System.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Resonant Beginning for the Solar System Terrestrial Planets

   Huang, Ormel, Zwart, Kokubo and 易 · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Under the proposed scenario, the current period ratio of 3.05 between Mars and Venus -- devoid of any special significance in traditional late formation models -- naturally arises as a relic of the former resonance chain.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Terrestrial planet formation from a ring: long-term simulations accounting for the giant planet instability

   Woo, Nesvorný, Scora and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“About half of the simulations form a pair of Venus and Earth analogues and, independently, about 10% form a Mars analogue.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Mars' Growth Stunted by an Early Giant Planet Instability

   Clement, Kaib, Raymond and Walsh · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Here we use 800 dynamical simulations to show that an early instability in the outer solar system strongly influences terrestrial planet formation and regularly yields properly sized Mars analogs.”
   2. Unchecked“In these simulations, accretion has begun in the Mars region before the instability, but the dynamical perturbation induced by the giant planets' scattering removes large embryos from Mars' vicinity.”