Statistical Study of the Early Solar System's Instability with Four, Five, and Six Giant Planets
@article{Nesvorn2012StatisticalSO, title={Statistical Study of the Early Solar System's Instability with Four, Five, and Six Giant Planets}, author={David Nesvorn{\'y} and Alessandro Morbidelli}, journal={The Astronomical Journal}, year={2012}, volume={144}, pages={117} }
Several properties of the solar system, including the wide radial spacing and orbital eccentricities of giant planets, can be explained if the early solar system evolved through a dynamical instability followed by migration of planets in the planetesimal disk. Here we report the results of a statistical study, in which we performed nearly 104 numerical simulations of planetary instability starting from hundreds of different initial conditions. We found that the dynamical evolution is typically…
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