...Figure 4. Density of various types of Solar System objects as a function of diameter ( McKinnon et al. 2017 ; Vernazza et al. 2021 ). Due to the possible presence of porosity, asteroids, centaurs, and trans-Neptunian objects seem to present density–diameter trends. Still, a general decrease...

... ( 2009 ) Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects . Nature 460 : 364 – 366 Levison HF , Duncan MJ , Brasser R , Kaufmann DE ( 2010 ) Capture of the Sun’s Oort cloud from stars in its birth cluster . Science 329 : 187 – 190 Marchis...

... to a potentially habitable ocean world . Nature Communications 11 : 1311 , doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15160-9 Hussmann H , Sohl F , Spohn T ( 2006 ) Subsurface oceans and deep interiors of medium-sized outer planet satellites and large trans-neptunian objects . Icarus 185 : 258 - 273...

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... “Trojans” ( F ig . 2 ). The Jupiter Trojans, being more similar to trans-Neptunian objects (those beyond 30 AU) than to asteroids, are not discussed in this issue. F igure 2 The asteroid belt or main belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Jupiter Trojans co-orbital with Jupiter...

...://doi.org/10.1038/nature11908 . Bhatia , G.K. , and Sahijpal , S. ( 2017 ) Thermal evolution of trans-Neptunian objects, icy satellites, and minor icy planets in the early solar system . Meteoritics and Planetary Science , 52 , 12 , 2470 – 2490 . https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.12952...

... filled with sand and gravel compositionally different from the host sediments ( Fig. 3 , A ). These joints, called neptunian dikes, are often associated with earthquake rupture (see Fig. 45 in ( Nikolaev, 1992 )). Other deformational structures we encountered in NE fault zones are those looking like...

... of the development of science, in which logic of discovery, in the light of observations and their rational criticism in an objective scientific community, has been allotted a secondary place with respect to irrational social forces. The purpose of this article is to show that Lyell's account of Werner cannot...

... their original position in the trans-Neptunian disk to their present day position by gravitational disturbances induced by dynamic instabilities of the giant planets ( Brasser and Morbidelli, 2013 ). From time to time, some of these objects are gravitationally destabilised and deviate towards the inner solar...

..., and graphs. However, similar early works did not exhibit this reliance on the visual presentation of data. Partly caused by printing limitations and expenses, these first texts were sparsely illustrated, with images that were mere pictorial representations of the objects the author sought to display. However...

... ) Galilean satellites: Identification of water frost . Science 178 : 1087 – 1089 Pinilla-Alonso N Brunetto R Licandro J Gil-Hutton R Roush TL Strazzulla G ( 2009 ) The surface of (136108) Haumea (2003 EL61), the largest carbon-depleted object in the trans-Neptunian belt...

... ellipsoid (e.g. Oertel I97o), parallel to it within the limits of field measurement (Borradaile i974a), just parallel to it (e.g. Ramsay i967, Siddans ~97 ~) and, despite strong theoretical objections, even precisely parallel to it (Wood x974, Tullis & Wood I975). Those impressions have, however, been...

.... Abraham G. Werner, Short Classification and Description of the Various Rocks , trans. Alexander M. Ospovat (New York: Hafner Press, 1971), 80–82. 11. Robert Jameson, The Wernerian Theory of the Neptunian Origin of Rocks (New York: Hafner Press, 1976), 213–215. 12. Jameson, Wernerian...

..., suggesting formation at its current heliocentric location ( Marchis et al. 2006b ). However, 617 Patroclus has a much lower bulk density, 800 kg m −3 ( Marchis et al. 2006a ). Interestingly, the few known trans-Neptunian and Kuiper belt object densities also seem to demonstrate both low- and high-density...

... of the incomplete data we can gather on past objects and past processes, regardless of how it is done, as long as it is internally consistent and remains testable by further data. This is what the great German geologist Leopold von Buch, Baron of Gelmersdorf, said in his inaugural speech in the Royal Prussian...

... 200–300 revolutions (∼3000 y) before disintegration is complete. To maintain a steady state, new comets must enter the JF system about once a decade and the HT system about once every century. The likely replacement reservoirs are the Oort cloud and a trans-Neptunian population of icy bodies...

... to make their own collections and to forward specimens to Paris. The article pointed to Cuvier and Brongniart’s investigation of the Paris Basin as an example of the power of fossils “in determining the relations of different formations, one of the principal objects of geology.” 7 bork...

... of geology in America in 1841? There once was a myth that Lyell came like a white knight and rescued American geology from Wernerian oblivion, but, in fact, the subject was already well developed here and trans-Atlantic communcation of geological knowledge was already well established. A number of astute...

.... , 2019 ), the Unit 3 representing an outer ramp ( e.g. Wu, 2009 ; Wang et al. , 2015 ). The lithological change from the Unit 2 to the Unit 3 and the occurrence of neptunian dykes on top of the sponge-microbial build-ups have been interpreted as karst formed during subaerial exposure...