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Numerical integrations of the four major planets orbits inside a primordialplanetesimals disk show that a fraction of Neptune primordial scatteredobjects are deposited into the classical Kuiper Belt at Solar System age. Theseobjects exhibit inclinations as high as 40° and can account forpresent high inclinations population in the classical Kuiper Belt. The samemechanism can also originate high perihelion scattered objects like 2000 CR105. The process that in the end produced such objects can be divided into two phases, a migration phase where nonconservative dynamics acted to producesome stable objects already at 108 years and a nonmigrating phase that helped to establish some other objects as stable TNO's. Low inclination CKBO's have inprinciple an origin through the resonance sweeping process, although someresults from numerical integrations at least suggest a possible origin also fromthe primordial Neptune scattered population.
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Gomes, R. The Common Origin of the High Inclination TNO's. Earth, Moon, and Planets 92, 29–42 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MOON.0000031922.78588.6d
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