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Origin and Evolution of the Cometary Reservoirs by Dones, Luke, Brasser, Ramon, Kaib, Nathan, Rickman, Hans

“…Comets have three known reservoirs: the roughly spherical Oort Cloud (for long-period comets), the flattened Kuiper Belt (for ecliptic comets), and,…”
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Oort cloud (exo)planets by Raymond, Sean N, Izidoro, Andre, Kaib, Nathan A

“…ABSTRACT Dynamical instabilities among giant planets are thought to be nearly ubiquitous and culminate in the ejection of one or more planets into interstellar…”
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Passing Stars as an Important Driver of Paleoclimate and the Solar System’s Orbital Evolution by Kaib, Nathan A., Raymond, Sean N.

“…Abstract Reconstructions of the paleoclimate indicate that ancient climatic fluctuations on Earth are often correlated with variations in its orbital elements…”
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The fragility of the terrestrial planets during a giant-planet instability by Kaib, Nathan A., Chambers, John E.

“…Many features of the outer Solar system are replicated in numerical simulations if the giant planets undergo an orbital instability that ejects one or more ice…”
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Excitation and depletion of the asteroid belt in the early instability scenario by Clement, Matthew S., Raymond, Sean N., Kaib, Nathan A.

“…Containing only a few percent the mass of the moon, the current asteroid belt is around three to four orders of magnitude smaller that its primordial mass…”
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Future trajectories of the Solar System: dynamical simulations of stellar encounters within 100 au by Raymond, Sean N, Kaib, Nathan A, Selsis, Franck, Bouy, Herve

“…ABSTRACT Given the inexorable increase in the Sun’s luminosity, Earth will exit the habitable zone in ∼1 Gyr. There is a negligible chance that Earth’s orbit…”
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The early instability scenario: Terrestrial planet formation during the giant planet instability, and the effect of collisional fragmentation by Clement, Matthew S., Kaib, Nathan A., Raymond, Sean N., Chambers, John E., Walsh, Kevin J.

“…•Largest sample to date of simulations of terrestrial planet formation in the solar system using an integrator that includes the effects of collisional…”
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Planetary system disruption by Galactic perturbations to wide binary stars by Kaib, Nathan A., Raymond, Sean N., Duncan, Martin

“…Numerical simulations of a widely separated binary star system demonstrate that planetary systems around one star may often be strongly perturbed by the other…”
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The feeding zones of terrestrial planets and insights into Moon formation by Kaib, Nathan A., Cowan, Nicolas B.

“…•We model the accretion of the Solar System’s terrestrial planets.•We examine feeding zones of planets and their major impactors.•We find Theia is unlikely to…”
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Close Trans-Neptunian Object Passages as a Driver of the Origin and Evolution of Ultrawide Kuiper Belt Binaries by Campbell, Hunter M., Stone, Lukas R., Kaib, Nathan A.

“…Abstract Within the dynamically cold low-inclination portion of the Classical Kuiper Belt, there exists a population of weakly bound binary systems with a…”
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Origin and Evolution of Short-period Comets by Nesvorný, David, Vokrouhlický, David, Dones, Luke, Levison, Harold F., Kaib, Nathan, Morbidelli, Alessandro

“…Comets are icy objects that orbitally evolve from the trans-Neptunian region into the inner solar system, where they are heated by solar radiation and become…”
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Sedna and the Oort Cloud around a migrating Sun by Kaib, Nathan A., Roškar, Rok, Quinn, Thomas

“…► We model Oort Cloud formation while the Sun migrates within the Milky Way. ► The radial distribution of the Oort Cloud depends on the Sun’s galactic orbital…”
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Born eccentric: Constraints on Jupiter and Saturn’s pre-instability orbits by Clement, Matthew S., Raymond, Sean N., Kaib, Nathan A., Deienno, Rogerio, Chambers, John E., Izidoro, André

“…An episode of dynamical instability is thought to have sculpted the orbital structure of the outer solar system. When modeling this instability, a key…”
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The early instability scenario: Mars’ mass explained by Jupiter’s orbit by Clement, Matthew S., Kaib, Nathan A., Raymond, Sean N., Chambers, John E.

“…The formation of the solar system’s giant planets predated the ultimate epoch of massive impacts that concluded the process of terrestrial planet formation…”
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Dynamical fates of S-type planetary systems in embedded cluster environments by Ellithorpe, Elizabeth A, Kaib, Nathan A

“…ABSTRACT The majority of binary star systems that host exoplanets will spend the first portion of their lives within a star-forming cluster that may drive…”
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Reassessing the Source of Long-Period Comets by Kaib, Nathan A, Quinn, Thomas

“…We present numerical simulations to model the production of observable long-period comets (LPCs) from the Oort Cloud, a vast reservoir of icy bodies…”
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Evolution of Primordial Kuiper Belt Binaries through a Giant Planet Instability by Stone, Lukas R, Kaib, Nathan A

“…The non-resonant Kuiper belt objects between the 3:2 and 2:1 Neptunian mean motion resonances can be largely divided between a cold classical belt (CCB) and a…”
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Comet fading begins beyond Saturn by Kaib, Nathan A

“…The discovery probability of long-period comets (LPCs) passing near the Sun is highest during their first passage and then declines, or fades, during…”
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Building the terrestrial planets: Constrained accretion in the inner Solar System by Raymond, Sean N., O’Brien, David P., Morbidelli, Alessandro, Kaib, Nathan A.

“…To date, no accretion model has succeeded in reproducing all observed constraints in the inner Solar System. These constraints include: (1) the orbits, in…”
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Born extra-eccentric: A broad spectrum of primordial configurations of the gas giants that match their present-day orbits by Clement, Matthew S., Deienno, Rogerio, Kaib, Nathan A., Izidoro, André, Raymond, Sean N., Chambers, John E.

“…In a recent paper we proposed that the giant planets’ primordial orbits may have been eccentric (eJ∼eS∼ 0.05), and used a suite of dynamical simulations to…”
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