NOTE: Neptune Scattered Planetesimals Could Have Sculpted the Primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt

Details NOTE: Neptune Scattered Planetesimals Could Have Sculpted the Primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt NOTE: Neptune Scattered Planetesimals Could Have Sculpted the Primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt

Aug 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997icar..128..464m&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 128, Issue 2, pp. 464-468.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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We show that Neptune-scattered planetesimals of a few Earth masses could have excited the eccentricities of the vast majority of bodies in the primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. This could result in sculpting the belt to its currently observed structure and in depleting most of its primordial mass by: (i) injecting most of the bodies from the stable into the unstable regions in the inner belt; (ii) enhancing the role of mutual catastrophic collisions in the outer belt.

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