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The orbits of the asteroids in our solar system may have been excited to their current state if Jupiter’s and Saturn’s early orbits were chaotic, and the gas giants only later moved to their current orbits.
Michael G. Gowanlock 2016 ApJ 832 38
Models of the lethality of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the Milky Way suggest that over the past 1 Gyr, the inner Galaxy hosts the greatest density of stars (and associated planets) that survive GRB events.
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A solar system model is put forward in which nm-sized silicate grains are produced by evaporation and recondensation events in early solar nebula, and these nanograins aggregate into rocky planetesimals.
Daisuke Homma et al 2016 ApJ 832 21
Early survey data from Subaru’s Hyper Suprime-Cam program reveals the presence of a new ultra-faint dwarf satellite companion of the Milky Way, located in the constellation of Virgo.
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The first photometric results from the MANOS project help to characterize 87 sub-km near-Earth objects and identify seven as the most suitable candidates for a future human or robotic mission.
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Swift, Spitzer, and ground-based groups all simultaneously observed the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1319, allowing for the measurement of physical properties of the system.