Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1775117 | Icarus | 2009 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
By examining the absolute magnitude (H ) distributions (hereafter HD) of the cold and hot populations in the Kuiper belt and of the Trojans of Jupiter, we find evidence that the Trojans have been captured from the outer part of the primordial trans-neptunian planetesimal disk. We develop a sketch model of the HDs in the inner and outer parts of the disk that is consistent with the observed distributions and with the dynamical evolution scenario known as the ‘Nice model’. This leads us to predict that the HD of the hot population should have the same slope of the HD of the cold population for 6.5
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Authors
Alessandro Morbidelli, Harold F. Levison, William F. Bottke, Luke Dones, David Nesvorný,