Planetesimal Dynamics and the Formation of Uranus and Neptune

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Sep 1999

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American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #31, #01.01

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The question of how Uranus and Neptune formed remains a puzzle, despite the fact that this issue is central to our understanding of the structure of the Kuiper belt (including the scattered disk) and Oort Cloud. In this talk I will review the basic elements of planetesimal dynamics as they relate to this question. I will also present a few preliminary results of our collaboration's N-body simulations using a new symplectic integrator (Duncan, Levison & Lee 1998). The simulations are designed to study the late stages of outer planet formation and illustrate some of the difficulties in forming Uranus and Neptune in this region of the solar system.

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