Dynamical evolution of the early solar system

D Nesvorný - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Several properties of the Solar System, including the wide radial spacing of the giant
planets, can be explained if planets radially migrated by exchanging orbital energy and …

The late heavy bombardment

WF Bottke, MD Norman - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Heavily cratered surfaces on the Moon, Mars, and Mercury show that the terrestrial planets
were battered by an intense bombardment during their first billion years or more, but the …

The Lidov-Kozai oscillation and hugo von Zeipel

T Ito, K Ohtsuka - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03984, 2019 - arxiv.org
The so-called Lidov-Kozai oscillation is very well known and applied to various problems in
solar system dynamics. This mechanism makes the orbital inclination and eccentricity of the …

Mars' growth stunted by an early giant planet instability

MS Clement, NA Kaib, SN Raymond, KJ Walsh - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
Many dynamical aspects of the solar system can be explained by the outer planets
experiencing a period of orbital instability sometimes called the Nice Model. Though often …

Dynamical evidence for an early giant planet instability

R de Sousa Ribeiro, A Morbidelli, SN Raymond… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
The dynamical structure of the Solar System can be explained by a period of orbital
instability experienced by the giant planets. While a late instability was originally proposed …

The role of early giant-planet instability in terrestrial planet formation

D Nesvorný, FV Roig, R Deienno - The Astronomical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The terrestrial planets are believed to have formed by violent collisions of tens of lunar-to
Mars-size protoplanets at time t< 200 Myr after the protoplanetary gas disk dispersal (t 0) …

Isotopic trichotomy of main belt asteroids from implantation of outer solar system planetesimals

D Nesvorný, N Dauphas, D Vokrouhlický… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent analyses of samples from asteroid (162173) Ryugu returned by JAXA's Hayabusa2
mission suggest that Ryugu and CI chondrites formed in the same region of the …

Consequences of planetary migration on the minor bodies of the early solar system

S Pirani, A Johansen, B Bitsch, AJ Mustill… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Pebble accretion is an efficient mechanism that is able to build up the core of the giant
planets within the lifetime of the protoplanetary disc gas-phase. The core grows via this …

Constraining the giant planets' initial configuration from their evolution: Implications for the timing of the planetary instability

R Deienno, A Morbidelli, RS Gomes… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent works on planetary migration show that the orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt can be
very well reproduced if, before the onset of planetary instability, Neptune underwent a long …

Early bombardment of the moon: Connecting the lunar crater record to the terrestrial planet formation

D Nesvorný, FV Roig, D Vokrouhlický, WF Bottke… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
The lunar crater record features∼ 50 basins. The radiometric dating of Apollo samples
indicates that the Imbrium basin formed relatively late—from the planet formation …