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Both Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are minor bodies found in the outer Solar System. Centaurs are a transient population that moves between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune, and they probably diffused out of the TNOs. TNOs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Mattia Galiazzo , Carlos de la Fuente Marcos , Raul de la Fuente Marcos , Giovanni Carraro , Michele Maris , Marco Montalto

Recent observations and detections of interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system have sparked a wave of interest into these objects. Although rare, these ISOs can be captured into bound orbits around the Sun. In this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Diptajyoti Mukherjee , Amir Siraj , Hy Trac , Abraham Loeb

The current giant planet region is a transitional zone where transneptunian objects (TNOs) cross in their way to becoming Jupiter Family Comets (JFCs). Their dynamical behavior is conditioned by the intrinsic dynamical features of TNOs and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-16 Romina P. Di Sisto , Natalia L. Rossignoli

The migration of Neptune's resonances through the proto-Kuiper belt has been imprinted in the distribution of small bodies in the outer Solar System. Here we analyze five published Neptune migration models in detail, focusing on the high…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 S. M. Lawler , R. E. Pike , N. Kaib , M. Alexandersen , M. T. Bannister , Y. -T. Chen , B. Gladman , S. Gwyn , J. J. Kavelaars , J. -M. Petit , K. Volk

Recently, Sheppard et al. (2016) presented the discovery of seven new trans-Neptunian objects with moderate eccentricities, perihelia beyond 40 AU, and semimajor axes beyond 50 AU. Like the few previously known objects on similar orbits,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Nathan A. Kaib , Scott S. Sheppard

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

We evaluate the dynamical stability of a selection of outer solar system objects in the presence of the proposed new Solar System member Planet Nine. We use a Monte Carlo suite of numerical N-body integrations to construct a variety of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Juliette Becker , Fred Adams , Tali Khain , Stephanie Hamilton , David Gerdes

Large scale simulations of Centaurs have yielded vast amounts of data, the analysis of which allows interesting but uncommon scenarios to be studied. One such rare phenomenon is the temporary capture of Centaurs as Trojans of the giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Horner , N. Wyn Evans

The two innermost planets of the Proxima Centauri system are separated by just 0.02 au, inducing strong gravitational interactions between them. We assess this interaction by leveraging fast orbital stability indicators and find that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 Joseph R. Livesey , Rory Barnes , Russell Deitrick

We conduct a systematic survey of the regions in which distant satellites can orbit stably around the four giant planets in the solar system, using orbital integrations of up to $10^9$ yr. In contrast to previous investigations, we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yue Shen , Scott Tremaine

The detached transneptunian objects (TNOs) are those with semimajor axes beyond the 2:1 resonance with Neptune, which are neither resonant nor scattering. Using the detached sample from the OSSOS telescopic survey, we produce the first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Matthew Beaudoin , Brett Gladman , Yukun Huang , Michele Bannister , J. J. Kavelaars , Jean-Marc Petit , Kathryn Volk

We present a short review of the impact regime experienced by the terrestrial planets within our own Solar system, describing the three populations of potentially hazardous objects which move on orbits that take them through the inner Solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-16 Jonathan Horner , Patryk Sofia Lykawka

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start by the end of 2025 and operate for ten years, offering billions of observations of the southern night sky. One of its main science goals is to create an…

We have numerically investigated the long term dynamical behavior of known Centaurs. This class of objects is thought to constitute the transitional population between the Kuiper Belt and the Jupiter-family comets (JFCs). In our study, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-14 Matthew S. Tiscareno , Renu Malhotra

Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) in the scattered disk with 50 < a < 100 au are thought to cluster near Neptune's n:1 resonances (e.g: 3:1, 4:1, and so on). While these objects spend lengthy periods of time at large heliocentric distances, if…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Matthew S. Clement , Scott S. Sheppard

We demonstrate dynamical pathways from main-belt asteroid and Centaur orbits to those in co-orbital motion with Jupiter, including the retrograde (inclination $i>90^o$) state. We estimate that at any given time, there should be $\sim1$…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Sarah Greenstreet , Brett Gladman , Henry Ngo

We present results of 6 years of observations, reduced and analyzed with the same tools in a systematic way. We report completely new data for 15 objects, for 5 objects we present a new analysis of previously published results plus…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Thirouin , J. L. Ortiz , R. Duffard , P. Santos-Sanz , F. J. Aceituno , N. Morales

We aim to locate the stability region for Uranus Trojans (UT hereafter) and find out the dynamical mechanisms responsible for the structures in the phase space. Using the spectral number as the stability indicator, we construct the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-04 Lei Zhou , Li-Yong Zhou , Rudolf Dvorak , Jian Li

The scattering trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) can be measured to smaller sizes than any other distant small-body population. We use the largest sample yet obtained, 68 discoveries, primarily by the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 S. M. Lawler , C. Shankman , JJ. Kavelaars , M. Alexandersen , M. T. Bannister , Y. -T. Chen , B. Gladman , W. C. Fraser , S. Gwyn , N. Kaib , J. -M. Petit , K. Volk