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...

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...

lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation...

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...

Around a Loaded Sputnik Planitia Basin, Pluto". Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 126. Bibcode:2021JGRE..12606964M. doi:10.1029/2021JE006964....

of the Solar System Though astronomers generally accept Orcus as a dwarf planet, some doubt remains A major moon is a moon that is hydrostatically round...

the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The identified...

above sea level are only available on Earth, and possibly Titan. On other planets, peak elevations above an equipotential surface or a reference ellipsoid...

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(December 2023). "High-resolution shape models of Phobos and Deimos from stereophotoclinometry". Earth, Planets and Space. 75 (1). Bibcode:2023EP&S...75...

super-Earth planet that once orbited the Sun closer to Mercury was able to clear its neighborhood before spiraling down into the Sun. In the Five-planet Nice model...

other liquid on or near the surface of a solid round body (terrestrial planet, planetoid, or moon). Currently, cold surface bodies of liquid are found...

Largest valleys Largest lakes Hypothetical Planet Nine Five-planet Nice model Vulcanoids Tyche Nemesis Planets beyond Neptune Claimed moons of Earth List...

Juno (minor-planet designation: 3 Juno) is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt. Juno was the third asteroid discovered, in 1804, by German astronomer...

evolution of giant-planet migration described by the Nice model, in which an ice giant (Uranus, Neptune, or an additional Neptune-mass planet) is scattered...

basins relative to craters. Disrupted planet Fifth planet (hypothetical) Nice model Phaeton (hypothetical planet) List of hypothetical solar system objects...

(the Nice model). Uranus orbits the Sun once every 84 years. As viewed against the background of stars, since being discovered in 1781, the planet has...

migration of the giant planets described by the Nice model fewer objects are captured in the Oort cloud when Planet Nine is included. Other objects would be...

contrast to a five-planet Nice model without a Planet Nine that can closely match the observed inclination distribution. In a model including Planet Nine, part...

this hypothesis is known as the Nice model, which explores the effect of a migrating Neptune and the other giant planets on the structure of the Kuiper...

but no consensus yet exists. The Nice model, popular among planetary scientists, postulates that the giant planets underwent orbital migration, scattering...

Cylon of this model is Commander Vulpa (so identified in The Cylon Death Machine, Robert Thurston's novelization of "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero"). Their...

fourth planet from the Sun. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red Planet". Mars...

craters on 40 astronomical bodies, which includes minor planets (asteroids and dwarf planets), planets, and natural satellites. All geological features of...

of the Empire, Golan Trevize ventured to this planet in his search for Earth. The inhabitants seemed nice enough but tried to infect him and his crew with...

oldest planet in the Solar System, having formed just one million years after the Sun and roughly 50 million years before Earth. Current models of Solar...

Earth-like planets in a circumstellar habitable zone. Many of these stars, and hence their planets, are much older than the Sun. If Earth-like planets are typical...

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...

Nova in the science fiction film classic Planet of the Apes (1968) and the first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes; she also had a cameo in Tim Burton's...

(1965). Sandworms are colossal, worm-like creatures that live on the desert planet Arrakis. Their larvae produce a drug called melange (known colloquially...