Search Results - "Nesvorny, David"
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THE ASTEROID BELT AS A RELIC FROM A CHAOTIC EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-12-2016)“…ABSTRACT The orbital structure of the asteroid belt holds a record of the solar system's dynamical history. The current belt only contains ∼10−3 Earth masses…”
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High-energy chemistry of formamide: A unified mechanism of nucleobase formation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-01-2015)“…The coincidence of the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) period and the emergence of terrestrial life about 4 billion years ago suggest that extraterrestrial…”
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NEOMOD: A New Orbital Distribution Model for Near-Earth Objects
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-08-2023)“…Abstract Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are a transient population of small bodies with orbits near or in the terrestrial planet region. They represent a mid-stage…”
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Dynamical Evolution of the Early Solar System
Published in Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics (14-09-2018)“…Several properties of the Solar System, including the wide radial spacing of the giant planets, can be explained if planets radially migrated by exchanging…”
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The Gateway from Centaurs to Jupiter-family Comets: Thermal and Dynamical Evolution
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2023)“…Abstract It was recently proposed that there exists a “gateway” in the orbital parameter space through which Centaurs transition to Jupiter-family comets…”
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Stochastic Late Accretion to Earth, the Moon, and Mars
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (10-12-2010)“…Core formation should have stripped the terrestrial, lunar, and martian mantles of highly siderophile elements (HSEs). Instead, each world has disparate, yet…”
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HD 28109 Hosts A Trio of Transiting Neptunian Planets Including A Near-Resonant Pair, Confirmed By ASTEP From Antarctica
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (22-07-2022)“…We report on the discovery and characterization of three planets orbiting the F8 star HD 28109, which sits comfortably in TESS ’s continuous viewing zone. The…”
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TOI-2525 b and c: A Pair of Massive Warm Giant Planets with Strong Transit Timing Variations Revealed by TESS
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-04-2023)“…Abstract The K-type star TOI-2525 has an estimated mass of M = 0.849 − 0.033 + 0.024 M ⊙ and radius of R = 0.785 − 0.007 + 0.007 R ⊙ observed by the TESS…”
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Delivery of dark material to Vesta via carbonaceous chondritic impacts
Published in Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) (01-11-2012)“…► Dark material on Vesta observed by Dawn is remnant carbonaceous chondrite impactor. ► Global abundance of carbonaceous chondrite material <6vol.% similar to…”
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The fossilized size distribution of the main asteroid belt
Published in Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) (01-05-2005)“…Planet formation models suggest the primordial main belt experienced a short but intense period of collisional evolution shortly after the formation of…”
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Linking the collisional history of the main asteroid belt to its dynamical excitation and depletion
Published in Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) (01-12-2005)“…The main belt is believed to have originally contained an Earth mass or more of material, enough to allow the asteroids to accrete on relatively short…”
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All planetesimals born near the Kuiper belt formed as binaries
Published in Nature astronomy (01-04-2017)“…The cold classical Kuiper belt objects have low inclinations and eccentricities 1 , 2 and are the only Kuiper belt population suspected to have formed in situ…”
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Recent Origin of the Solar System Dust Bands
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Spectroscopy of B-type asteroids: Subgroups and meteorite analogs
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research. E. Planets (01-06-2010)“…B‐type asteroids have a negative slope from ∼0.5 to ∼1.1 μm and beyond. What causes this? Visible to near‐infrared reflectance spectra (0.4–2.5 μm) are…”
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NEPTUNE'S ORBITAL MIGRATION WAS GRAINY, NOT SMOOTH
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-07-2016)“…ABSTRACT The Kuiper Belt is a population of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The complex orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt, including several…”
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Dynamical Spreading of Asteroid Families by the Yarkovsky Effect
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-11-2001)“…The orbital distributions of prominent asteroid families are thought to be direct by-products of catastrophic disruption events among diameter D ≳ 100…”
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DYNAMICAL EVIDENCE FOR A LATE FORMATION OF SATURN'S MOONS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2016)“…ABSTRACT We explore the past evolution of Saturn's moons using direct numerical integrations. We find that the past Tethys-Dione 3:2 orbital resonance…”
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Binary survival in the outer solar system
Published in Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) (01-10-2019)“…As indicated by their special characteristics, the cold classical Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) formed and survived at ≃42–47 au. Notably, they show a large…”
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CAPTURE OF TROJANS BY JUMPING JUPITER
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2013)“…Jupiter Trojans are thought to be survivors of a much larger population of planetesimals that existed in the planetary region when planets formed. They can…”
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Testing MOND on Small Bodies in the Remote Solar System
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2024)“…Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), which postulates a breakdown of Newton's laws of gravity/dynamics below some critical acceleration threshold, can explain…”
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