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Excitation of the Orbital Inclination of Iapetus during Planetary Encounters
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Rogerio Deienno +1
Saturn's moon Iapetus has an orbit in a transition region where the Laplace surface is bending from the equator to the orbital plane of Saturn. The orbital inclination of Iapetus t…
Transit timing variations for planets coorbiting in the horseshoe regime
David Vokrouhlicky, David Nesvorny
While not detected yet, pairs of exoplanets in the 1:1 mean motion resonance probably exist. Low eccentricity, near-planar orbits, which in the comoving frame follow the horseshoe…
The Effect of Conjunctions on the Transit Timing Variations of Exoplanets
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky
We develop an analytic model for transit timing variations produced by orbital conjunctions between gravitationally interacting planets. If the planetary orbits have tight orbital…
Orbital Perturbations of the Galilean Satellites During Planetary Encounters
R. Deienno, D. Nesvorny, D. Vokrouhlicky +1
The Nice model of the dynamical instability and migration of the giant planets can explain many properties of the present Solar System, and can be used to constrain its early archi…
Orbit and Bulk Density of the OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroid (101955) Bennu
Steven R. Chesley, Davide Farnocchia, Michael C. Nolan +13
The target asteroid of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, (101955) Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ), is a half-kilometer near-Earth asteroid with an extraordinarily well…
Capture of Irregular Satellites at Jupiter
D. Nesvorny, D. Vokrouhlicky, R. Deienno
The irregular satellites of outer planets are thought to have been captured from heliocentric orbits. The exact nature of the capture process, however, remains uncertain. We examin…