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Comets are icy objects that orbitally evolve from the trans-Neptunian region (the Kuiper belt and beyond) into the inner Solar System, where they are heated by solar radiation and become active due to sublimation of water ice. Here we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Nesvorny , D. Vokrouhlicky , L. Dones , H. F. Levison , N. Kaib , A. Morbidelli

The Jupiter Trojans are a significant population of minor bodies in the middle Solar System that have garnered substantial interest in recent years. Several spectroscopic studies of these objects have revealed notable bimodalities with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-12 Ian Wong , Michael E. Brown , Joshua P. Emery

The Hercules kinematic group is a stellar anomaly structure observed in the solar neighbourhood (SNd). In the previous paper, we analysed chemical signatures and related the origin of this stellar population to the outer bar. Next to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Yusen Li , Kenneth Freeman , Helmut Jerjen

We investigate the survivability of Trojan-type companions of Neptune during primordial radial migration of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Loss of Neptune Trojans during planetary migration is not a random diffusion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steve Kortenkamp , Renu Malhotra , Tatiana Michtchenko

The Scattered Disk Objects (SDOs) are a population of trans-Neptunian bodies with semimajor axes $50< a \lesssim 1000$ au and perihelion distances $q \gtrsim 30$ au. The detached SDOs with orbits beyond the reach of Neptune (roughly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 David Nesvorny , Pedro Bernardinelli , David Vokrouhlicky , Konstantin Batygin

We study the dynamical properties of objects in hyperbolic orbits passing through the inner Solar system in the context of two different potential sources: interstellar space and the Oort cloud. We analytically derive the probability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Arika Higuchi , Eiichiro Kokubo

The stability of Trojan type orbits around Neptune is studied. As the first part of our investigation, we present in this paper a global view of the stability of Trojans on inclined orbits. Using the frequency analysis method based on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Li-Yong Zhou , Rudolf Dvorak , Yi-Sui Sun

The tumultuous early era of outer solar system evolution culminated when Neptune migrated across the primordial Kuiper belt (PKB) and triggered a dynamical instability among the giant planets. This event led to the ejection of approximately…

The long-standing co-orbital asteroids have been thought to be the possible source of zodiacal dust ring around the orbit of Venus, but inconsistent conclusions on the orbital stability thus existence of Venus Trojans are found in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yang-Bo Xu , Lei Zhou , Christoph Lhotka , Li-Yong Zhou , Wing-Huen Ip

Close encounters (CEs) between celestial objects may exert significant influence on their orbits. The influence will be even enhanced when two groups of celestial objects are confined in stable orbital configurations, e.g. in adjacent mean…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-29 Cheng-Yu Dong , Li-Yong Zhou

We numerically study the dynamical evolution of observed samples of active and inactive Centaurs and clones that reach the Jupiter-Saturn region. Our aim is to compare the evolution between active and inactive Centaurs, their end states and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Julio A. Fernández , Michel Helal , Tabaré Gallardo

A substantial fraction of our solar system's trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are in mean motion resonance with Neptune. Many of these objects were likely caught into resonances by planetary migration---either smooth or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Tze Yeung Mathew Yu , Ruth Murray-Clay , Kathryn Volk

The scattering of small bodies by planets is an important dynamical process in planetary systems. We present an analytical model to describe this process using the simplifying assumption that each particle's dynamics is dominated by a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Bonsor , M. C. Wyatt

Jovian co-orbitals share Jupiter's orbit in 1:1 mean motion resonance. This includes $>$10,000 so-called Trojan asteroids surrounding the leading (L4) and trailing (L5) Lagrange points, viewed as stable groups dating back to planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Sarah Greenstreet , Brett Gladman , Mario Juric

Exoplanets show a pile-up of Jupiter-size planets in orbits with a 3-day period. A fraction of these hot Jupiters have retrograde orbits with respect to the parent star's rotation. To explain these observations we performed a series of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Beauge , D. Nesvorny

The existence of extrasolar planets with short orbital periods suggests that planetary migration induced by tidal interaction with the protoplanetary disk is important. Cores and terrestrial planets may undergo migration as they form. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Caroline Terquem , John C. B. Papaloizou

In this work, we investigate the dynamical stability of pre-formed Neptune Trojans under the gravitational influence of the four giant planets in compact planetary architectures, over 10 Myr. In our modelling, the initial orbital locations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-16 P. S. Lykawka , J. Horner , B. W. Jones , T. Mukai

We aim to compute the impact rates for objects with a diameter of 1 km onto the regular satellites of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus using our latest dynamical simulations of the evolution of outer solar system coupled with the best estimates…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 R. Brasser , E. W. Wong , S. C. Werner