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Oort Cloud Comets Discovered Far from the Sun
Małgorzata Królikowska, Luke Dones
Context: Increasingly, Oort Cloud comets are being discovered at great distances from the Sun and tracked over ever wider ranges of heliocentric distances as observational equipmen…
Impact Rates in the Outer Solar System
David Nesvorny, Luke Dones, Mario De Pra +2
Previous studies of cometary impacts in the outer Solar System used the spatial distribution of ecliptic comets (ECs) from dynamical models that assumed ECs began on low-inclinatio…
The Collisional Evolution of the Primordial Kuiper Belt, Its Destabilized Population, and the Trojan Asteroids
William Bottke, David Vokrouhlicky, Raphael Marshall +6
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 gi…
The Transition from the Kuiper Belt to the Jupiter-Family (Comets)
Wesley C. Fraser, Luke Dones, Kathryn Volk +2
Kuiper Belt Objects, or more generally Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), are planetesimals found beyond the orbit of Neptune. Some TNOs evolve onto Neptune-crossing orbits and become…
Origin and evolution of long-period comets
David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný, Luke Dones
We develop an evolutionary model of the long-period comet (LPC) population, starting from their birthplace in a massive trans-Neptunian disk that was dispersed by migrating giant p…
Secular Resonance Between Iapetus and the Giant Planets
Matija Ćuk, Luke Dones, David Nesvorný +1
Using numerical integrations, we find that the orbital eccentricity of Saturn's moon Iapetus undergoes prominent multi-Myr oscillations. We identify the responsible resonant argume…