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 …

Organic molecules in the interstellar medium, comets, and meteorites: a voyage from dark clouds to the early Earth

P Ehrenfreund, SB Charnley - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Our understanding of the evolution of organic molecules, and their voyage from
molecular clouds to the early solar system and Earth, has changed dramatically …

Origin of water in the inner Solar System: Planetesimals scattered inward during Jupiter and Saturn's rapid gas accretion

SN Raymond, A Izidoro - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a long-standing debate regarding the origin of the terrestrial planets' water as well
as the hydrated C-type asteroids. Here we show that the inner Solar System's water is a …

[HTML][HTML] Debiased orbit and absolute-magnitude distributions for near-Earth objects

M Granvik, A Morbidelli, R Jedicke, B Bolin, WF Bottke… - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
The debiased absolute-magnitude and orbit distributions as well as source regions for near-
Earth objects (NEOs) provide a fundamental frame of reference for studies of individual …

Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early Solar System

A Morbidelli, HF Levison, K Tsiganis, R Gomes - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Jupiter's Trojans are asteroids that follow essentially the same orbit as Jupiter, but lead or
trail the planet by an angular distance of∼ 60 degrees (co-orbital motion). They are …

NEOWISE observations of near-Earth objects: Preliminary results

A Mainzer, T Grav, J Bauer, J Masiero… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
With the NEOWISE portion of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) project, we
have carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO) population at …

Ocean-like water in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartley 2

P Hartogh, DC Lis, D Bockelée-Morvan, M de Val-Borro… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
For decades, the source of Earth's volatiles, especially water with a deuterium-to-hydrogen
ratio (D/H) of (1.558±0.001)× 10− 4, has been a subject of debate. The similarity of Earth's …

Debiased orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of the near-Earth objects

WF Bottke Jr, A Morbidelli, R Jedicke, JM Petit… - Icarus, 2002 - Elsevier
The orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of the near-Earth objects (NEOs) is difficult
to compute, partly because only a modest fraction of the entire NEO population has been …

Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope

D Brownlee, P Tsou, J Aléon, CMOD Alexander… - science, 2006 - science.org
The Stardust spacecraft collected thousands of particles from comet 81P/Wild 2 and returned
them to Earth for laboratory study. The preliminary examination of these samples shows that …

Cometary origin of the zodiacal cloud and carbonaceous micrometeorites. Implications for hot debris disks

D Nesvorný, P Jenniskens, HF Levison… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The zodiacal cloud is a thick circumsolar disk of small debris particles produced by asteroid
collisions and comets. Their relative contribution and how particles of different sizes …