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99 claims from 58 papers, showing 41–58 of 58

1. 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…

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Crash Chronicles: Relative contribution from comets and carbonaceous asteroids to Earth’s volatile budget in the context of an Early Instability

   Joiret, Raymond, Avice and Clement · Icarus · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Before the Moon-forming impact, the cumulative collision rate of comets with Earth is about 4 orders of magnitude lower than that of carbonaceous asteroids.”

3. 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.”

4. 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.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Evidence for Slow Migration of Neptune from the Inclination Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects

   Nesvorný · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“By analyzing the orbital distribution of the implanted bodies in different cases we find that the inclination constraint implies that tau >= 10 Myr and a_{N,0} <= 25 AU.”

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.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Collisional Evolution of the Primordial Kuiper Belt, Its Destabilized Population, and the Trojan Asteroids

   Bottke, Vokrouhlický, Marshall et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“The weakest ones, from an impact energy per mass perspective, were 20 m in diameter.”

8. 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.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The link between Athor and EL meteorites does not constrain the timing of the giant planet instability

   Izidoro, Deienno, Raymond and Clement · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“The probability of implanting Athor analogs when the instability occurs at $\lesssim15$~Myr is at most a factor of $\sim$2 lower than that of an instability occurring at $\sim100$~Myr after the solar system formation.”

10. 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.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Asteroids Fail to Retain Cometary Impact Signatures

    Joiret, Avice, Ferrière et al. · The Planetary Science Journal · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“This apparent contradiction arises due to the fact that cometary impacts were at high speeds and Vesta's weak gravitational attraction made it incapable of retaining cometary material.”
    2. Unchecked“Therefore, if a cometary xenon signature is ever detected in an asteroid belt object, it must have been acquired during formation, within the same source region as comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and have been implanted later into the asteroid belt.”
    3. Unchecked“While our dynamical simulations indicate that Vesta likely underwent a significant number of collisions with large comets, we find no xenon cometary signature in HED meteorites.”

12. 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.”

13. 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.”

14. 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.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Capture of Trojans by Jumping Jupiter

    Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“We find that the capture probability is (6-8)x10^-7 for each particle in the original transplanetary disk, implying that the disk contained (3-4)x10^7 planetesimals with absolute magnitude H<9 (corresponding to diameter D=80 km for a 7% albedo).”
    2. Unchecked“The jump capture is potentially capable of explaining the observed asymmetry in the number of leading and trailing Trojans.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Dynamics of the giant planets of the solar system in the gaseous proto-planetary disk and relationship to the current orbital architecture

    Morbidelli, Tsiganis, Crida, Levison and Gomes · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“The only systems that we found to reach a steady state are those in which the planets are locked in a quadruple mean motion resonance (i.e. each planet is in resonance with its neighbor).”
    2. Unchecked“After the disappearance of the gas, and in absence of planetesimals, only two of these six configurations (the least compact ones) are stable for a time of hundreds of millions of years or more.”

17. 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.”

18. 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.”