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99 claims from 58 papers, showing 1–20 of 58

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Secular perturbations of asteroids with high inclination and eccentricity

   Kozai · The Astronomical Journal · 1962

   Kozai studies long-term orbital changes of highly inclined, eccentric asteroids perturbed by Jupiter on a circular orbit, solving the reduced equations and finding limiting inclinations for libration.

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   1. UncheckedOnce rapidly varying terms are averaged out, the asteroid's motion under the Sun and Jupiter can be reduced to a problem with one degree of freedom.“After short-periodic terms in the Hamiltonian are eliminated, the degree of freedom for the canonical equations of motion can be reduced to 1.”
   2. UncheckedBelow a certain limiting value of the z component of angular momentum, an asteroid's secular motion has both a stationary solution and libration solutions.“When the z component of the angular momentum (that is, Delaunay's H) of the asteroid is smaller than a certain limiting value, there are both a stationary solution and solutions corresponding to libration cases.”
   3. UncheckedIn Kozai's model, the limiting inclination for libration falls from 39.2° to 1.8° as the asteroid-to-Jupiter axis ratio rises from 0.0 to 0.95.“The limiting value of H increases as the ratio of the semimajor axes increases, i.e., the corresponding limiting inclination drops from 39.2° to 1.8° as the ratio of the axes increases from 0.0 to 0.95.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets

   Gomes, Levison, Tsiganis and Morbidelli · Nature · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“The asteroid belt was also strongly perturbed, with these objects supplying a significant fraction of the LHB impactors in accordance with recent geochemical evidence.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System

   Tsiganis, Gomes, Morbidelli and Levison · Nature · 2005

   The paper shows that giant planets starting on circular, flat orbits could evolve into today's configuration if Jupiter and Saturn crossed their 1:2 resonance, which migration could cause.

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   1. UncheckedJupiter and Saturn could have crossed their 1:2 orbital resonance as the giant planets migrated through interaction with a disk of planetesimals.“We show that this resonance crossing could have occurred as the giant planets migrated owing to their interaction with a disk of planetesimals.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' model reproduces the giant planets' final orbital distances, eccentricities and mutual inclinations in the Solar System.“Our model reproduces all the important characteristics of the giant planets' orbits, namely their final semimajor axes, eccentricities and mutual inclinations.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early Solar System

   Morbidelli, Levison, Tsiganis and Gomes · Nature · 2005

   Simulations suggest Jupiter's Trojans formed farther out and were captured during giant-planet migration, reproducing their orbital spread and total mass.

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   1. UncheckedJupiter's Trojan asteroids could have been captured briefly, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their 1:2 resonance, when the Trojan region was chaotic.“The capture was possible during a short period of time, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their mutual 1:2 resonance, when the dynamics of the Trojan region were completely chaotic.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' simulations of chaotic capture reproduce the orbits and total mass of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids satisfactorily.“Our simulations of this process satisfactorily reproduce the orbital distribution of the Trojans and their total mass.”

5. 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…”

6. 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…”

7. 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.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid

   Meech, Weryk, Micheli et al. · Nature · 2017

   The paper reports observations of 'Oumuamua, the first object seen to arrive from outside the Solar System, finding it asteroid-like, spectrally red and very elongated.

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   1. UncheckedBrightness variations suggest 'Oumuamua is extremely elongated, about ten times longer than wide, with a mean radius near 102 metres if its albedo is 0.04.“Light-curve observations indicate that the object has an extremely oblong shape, with a length about ten times its width, and a mean radius of about 102 metres assuming an albedo of 0.04.”
   2. Unchecked“Our observations during the brief visit by the object to the inner Solar System reveal it to be asteroidal, with no hint of cometary activity despite an approach within 0.25 astronomical units of the Sun.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Orbital Evolution of Planets Embedded in a Planetesimal Disk

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“We find that Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune evolve radially outwards as they scatter the planetesimals, while Jupiter's orbit shrinks as it ejects mass.”
   2. Unchecked“Higher-mass disks result in more rapid and extensive planet migration.”

10. 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.”

11. 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.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The formation of Uranus and Neptune in the Jupiter–Saturn region of the Solar System

    Thommes, Duncan and Levison · Nature · 1999

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    1. Unchecked“Here we report the results of model calculations that demonstrate that such cores will have been gravitationally scattered outwards as Jupiter, and perhaps Saturn, accreted nebular gas.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    NEPTUNE’S ORBITAL MIGRATION WAS GRAINY, NOT SMOOTH

    Nesvorný and Vokrouhlický · The Astrophysical Journal · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Thus, the non-resonant--to--resonant ratio obtained with the grainy migration is higher, up to ~10 times higher for the range of parameters investigated here, than in a model with smooth migration.”
    2. Unchecked“The grainy migration leads to a narrower distribution of the libration amplitudes in the 3:2 resonance.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    THE ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

    Fraser, Brown, Morbidelli, Parker and Batygin · The Astrophysical Journal · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The cold population has a bright-end slope, $α_{\textrm{1}}=1.5_{-0.2}^{+0.4}$, and break magnitude, $H_{\textrm{B}}=6.9_{-0.2}^{+0.1}$ (r'-band).”
    2. Unchecked“We estimate the masses of the hot and cold populations are $\sim0.01$ and $\sim3\times10^{-4} \mbox{ M$_{\bigoplus}$}$.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Neptune's Migration into a Stirred-Up Kuiper Belt: A Detailed Comparison of Simulations to Observations

    Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 2005

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    1. Unchecked“The more distant of these resonances, such as the 9:4, 7:3, 5:2, and the 3:1, can also capture particles in stable, eccentric orbits beyond 50 AU, in the region of phase space conventionally known as the Scattered Disk.”
    2. Unchecked“Indeed, 90% of the simulated particles that persist over the age of the Solar System in the so-called Scattered Disk zone never had a close encounter with Neptune, but instead were promoted into these eccentric orbits by Neptune's resonances during the migra…

16. 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…

17. 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.”

18. 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.”

19. 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.”

20. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Reassessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster

    Brasser, Duncan, Levison, Schwamb and Brown · Icarus · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“All inner Oort clouds formed are consistent with the existence of (90377) Sedna, an inner Oort cloud dwarf planetoid, at the inner edge of the cloud: Sedna tends to be at the innermost 2% for Plummer models, while it is 5% for Hernquist models.”