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astro-ph.EP2012★ 113 cited
NOTE: Explaining why the Uranian satellites have equatorial prograde orbits despite the large planetary obliquity
Alessandro Morbidelli, Kleomenis Tsiganis, Konstantin Batygin +2
We show that the existence of prograde equatorial satellites is consistent with a collisional tilting scenario for Uranus. In fact, if the planet was surrounded by a proto-satellit…
astro-ph.EP2012★ 229 cited
Dissipative Divergence of Resonant Orbits
Konstantin Batygin, Alessandro Morbidelli
A considerable fraction of multi-planet systems discovered by the observational surveys of extrasolar planets reside in mild proximity to first-order mean motion resonances. Howeve…