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30 claims from 19 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Origin of Pluto's Orbit: Implications for the Solar System Beyond Neptune

   Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1995

   The paper proposes that Pluto's orbit arose from resonance capture as Neptune's orbit changed early on, and predicts the resulting orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper predicts that most objects between Neptune and about 50 AU sit in narrow resonance zones with Neptune, chiefly 3:2 and 2:1, with large eccentricities.“Some consequences of this evolution for the present-day dynamical structure of the trans-Neptunian region are: (i) most of the objects in the region beyond Neptune and up to $\sim\!50$ AU exist in very narrow zones located at orbital resonances with Neptune (particularly the 3:2 and the 2:1 resonan…”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   OSSOS. VII. 800+ Trans-Neptunian Objects—The Complete Data Release

   Bannister, Gladman, Kavelaars et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“OSSOS doubles the known population of the non-resonant Kuiper belt, providing 436 TNOs in this region, all with exceptionally high-quality orbits of $a$ uncertainty $σ_{a} \leq 0.1\%$; they show the belt exists from $a \gtrsim 37$ au, with a lower perihelion…
   2. Unchecked“Our 313 resonant TNOs, including 132 plutinos, triple the available characterized sample and include new occupancy of distant resonances out to semi-major axis $a \sim 130$ au.”

3. 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.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The planet nine hypothesis

   Batygin, Adams, Brown and Becker · Physics Reports · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“This newly outlined dynamical architecture of the distant solar system points to the existence of a new planet with mass of $m_9\sim 5-10\,M_{\oplus}$, residing on a moderately inclined orbit ($i_9\sim15-25°$) with semi-major axis $a_9\sim 400 - 800\,$AU and…

5. 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.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   THE ALBEDO-COLOR DIVERSITY OF TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

   Lacerda, Fornasier, Lellouch et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“This color-albedo separation is evidence for a compositional discontinuity in the young solar system.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   TRACKING NEPTUNE’S MIGRATION HISTORY THROUGH HIGH-PERIHELION RESONANT TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

   Kaib and Sheppard · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“If Neptune finishes migrating within ~100 Myrs or less, we predict over 90% of high-perihelion objects near the 3:1 MMR will have semimajor axes within 1 AU of each other, very near the modern resonance's center.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

   What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

   Scholtz and Unwin · Physical Review Letters · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“The observational constraints on a PBH in the outer Solar System significantly differ from the case of a new ninth planet.”
   2. Unchecked“This scenario could be confirmed through annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo around the PBH.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Col-OSSOS: The Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

   Schwamb, Fraser, Bannister et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Including in our analysis constraints from the cold classical objects, which are known to exhibit unique albedos and $r-z$ colors, we find that within our measurement uncertainty, our observations are consistent with the primordial Solar System protoplanetes…
   2. Unchecked“Based on simple albedo and orbital distribution assumptions, we find that the neutral class outnumbers the red class, with a ratio of 4:1 and potentially as high as 11:1.”

10. 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.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    OSSOS. XV. Probing the Distant Solar System with Observed Scattering TNOs

    Kaib, Pike, Lawler et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Although the number of highly inclined scatterers from the Oort Cloud is ~3 times less than observed, Oort cloud enrichment from the Sun's galactic migration or birth cluster could resolve this.”
    2. Unchecked“Meanwhile, a distant, low-eccentricity 5 Earth-mass planet replicates the observed fraction of highly inclined scatterers, but the overall inclination distribution is more excited than observed.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey - Full Data Release: The orbital structure of the Kuiper belt

    Petit, Kavelaars, Gladman et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“The main classical belt (a=40--47 AU) needs to be modeled with at least three components: the `hot' component with a wide inclination distribution and two `cold' components (stirred and kernel) with much narrower inclination distributions.”
    2. Unchecked“The hot component must have a significantly shallower absolute magnitude (Hg) distribution than the other two components.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Is There an Earth-like Planet in the Distant Kuiper Belt?

    Lykawka and Itô · The Astronomical Journal · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We determined that an Earth-like planet (m ~ 1.5-3 Earth masses) located on a distant (semimajor axis a ~ 250-500 au, perihelion q ~ 200 au) and inclined (i ~ 30 deg) orbit can explain three fundamental properties of the distant Kuiper Belt: a prominent popu…
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, the proposed KBP is compatible with the existence of identified Gyr-stable TNOs in the 2:1, 5:2, 3:1, 4:1, 5:1, and 6:1 Neptunian mean motion resonances.”

14. 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…

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    OSSOS: X. How to use a Survey Simulator: Statistical Testing of Dynamical Models Against the Real Kuiper Belt

    Lawler, Kavelaars, Alexandersen et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“However, by carefully keeping track of survey pointings on the sky, detection limits, tracking fractions, and rate cuts, the biases from a survey can be modelled in Survey Simulator software.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Evidence for Very Early Migration of the Solar System Planets from the Patroclus-Menoetius binary Jupiter Trojan

    Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický, Bottke and Levison · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“This constraint implies that the planetary migration is unrelated to the formation of the youngest lunar basins.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Origin and Evolution of Short-Period Comets

    Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický, Dones, Levison, Kaib and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“The orbital distribution of ecliptic comets (ECs) is well reproduced in models with Np(2.5)=500 and without P9.”
    2. Unchecked“Np(2.5)>1000 is required to obtain a steady-state population of large active HTCs that is consistent with observations.”
    3. Unchecked“With P9, the inclination distribution of model ECs is wider than the observed one.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Radial Distribution of Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects Points to Sun's Formation in a Stellar Cluster

    Nesvorný, Bernardinelli, Vokrouhlický and Batygin · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“For such an encounter to happen with a reasonably high probability the Sun must have formed in a stellar cluster with $ηT \gtrsim 10^4$ Myr pc$^{-3}$, where $η$ is the stellar number density and $T$ is the Sun's residence time in the cluster.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Scenarios for the Origin of the Orbits of the Trans-Neptunian Objects 2000 CR105 and 2003 VB12

    Morbidelli and H. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2004

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    1. Unchecked“Of all these mechanisms, the only one giving satisfactory results is the passage of a star.”
    2. Unchecked“Indeed, our simulations show that the passage of a solar mass star at about 800 AU only perturbs objects with semi-major axes larger than roughly 200 AU to large perihelion distances.”