• DOI:10.1016/j.icarus.2007.11.035
Corpus ID: 7035885

Origin of the structure of the Kuiper belt during a dynamical instability in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune

@article{Levison2008OriginOT,
  title={Origin of the structure of the Kuiper belt during a dynamical instability in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune},
  author={H. Levison and A. Morbidelli and C. V. Laerhoven and R. Gomes and K. Tsiganis},
  journal={Icarus},
  year={2008},
  volume={196},
  pages={258-273}
}

• H. Levison, A. Morbidelli, +2 authors K. Tsiganis
• Published 2008
• Physics
• Icarus

Abstract We explore the origin and orbital evolution of the Kuiper belt in the framework of a recent model of the dynamical evolution of the giant planets, sometimes known as the Nice model. This model is characterized by a short, but violent, instability phase, during which the planets were on large eccentricity orbits. It successfully explains, for the first time, the current orbital architecture of the giant planets [Tsiganis, K., Gomes, R., Morbidelli, A., Levison, H.F., 2005. Nature 435… Expand