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    In astronomy, the Nice (/ˈniːs/) model is a scenario for the dynamical evolution of the Solar System. It is named for the location of the Côte d'Azur Observatory—where...
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  • The Nice 2 model is a model of the early evolution of the Solar System. The Nice 2 model resembles the original Nice model in that a late instability of...
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  • The five-planet Nice model is a numerical model of the early Solar System that is a revised variation of the Nice model. It begins with five giant planets...
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    In simulations of the migration of the giant planets described by the Nice model fewer objects are captured in the Oort cloud when Planet Nine is included...
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  • hypothetical ice giant proposed as part of the Five-planet Nice model, an extension of the Nice model of solar system evolution. This hypothesis suggests that...
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    These may be reduced during the giant planet instability described in the Nice model so that the eccentricity distribution resembles that of the current asteroid...
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    99% or more. The original version of the currently most popular model, the "Nice model", reproduces many characteristics of the Kuiper belt such as the...
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  • scenario specifies an evolution of giant-planet migration described by the Nice model, in which an ice giant (an additional Neptune-mass planet) is scattered...
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    Nice (/niːs/ NEESS; French pronunciation: [nis] ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration...
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    impactors in the inner Solar System, but no consensus yet exists. The Nice model, popular among planetary scientists, postulates that the giant planets...
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  • Look up Nice or nice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nice is a city in the south of France. Nice may also refer to: Niceness, or kindness Arrondissement...
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    during the migration of the giant planets described in the Nice model. In the Nice model the orbits of the giant planets became unstable 500–600 million...
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    interstellar space. Following the dissipation of the protoplanetary disk, the Nice model proposes that gravitational encounters between planetisimals and the gas...
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    that retain objects captured during the giant planet migration of the Nice model. The loss of objects from the Kirkwood gaps is due to the overlapping...
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  • the planets by order of proximity to Earth in the then-current geocentric model, closest to furthest, as the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and...
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    The Comet Nucleus". Origin and Evolution of Comets: 10 years after the Nice Model, and 1 year after Rosetta. World Scientific Publishing Co Singapore. ISBN 978-9813222571...
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    Ptolemy in the 2nd century CE. So complete was the domination of Ptolemy's model that it superseded all previous works on astronomy and remained the definitive...
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  • {\displaystyle x_{2}} direction. The Real Non-Volume Preserving model generalizes NICE model by: x = [ x 1 x 2 ] = f θ ( z ) = [ z 1 e s θ ( z 1 ) ⊙ z 2 ]...
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    the development of astronomy, furthering the adoption of the Copernican model of the Solar System and the development of Kepler's laws of planetary motion...
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  • D-type asteroid, and that the Martian moon Phobos is closely related. The Nice model suggests that D-type asteroids may have originated in the Kuiper belt...
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    orbit is not excited—can be explained by the five-planet Nice model. The five-planet Nice model, which argues for an additional ice giant planet in addition...
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    migrating resonances. A computer model created in 2004 by Alessandro Morbidelli of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice suggested that the migration...
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    via process similar to the chaotic capture of Jupiter trojans in the Nice model. When Uranus and Neptune are near but not in a mean-motion resonance the...
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    than their present positions, and moved outwards after formation (the Nice model). Uranus orbits the Sun once every 84 years. As viewed against the background...
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    Earth from space Development of hypotheses Geocentric model – Heliocentrism – Historical models of the Solar System Planets beyond Neptune List of former...
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    denser and has much more internal heat and a more active atmosphere. The Nice model, in fact, suggests that Neptune formed closer to the Sun than Uranus did...
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    accepted explanation of the details of this hypothesis is known as the Nice model, which is a dynamical evolution scenario that explores the potential effect...
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    Other models predict Jupiter forming at distances much further out, such as 18 AU (2.7 billion km; 1.7 billion mi). According to the Nice model, the infall...
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  • basins relative to craters. Disrupted planet Fifth planet (hypothetical) Nice model Phaeton (hypothetical planet) List of hypothetical solar system objects...
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  • In set theory, a nice name is used in forcing to impose an upper bound on the number of subsets in the generic model. It is used in the context of forcing...
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