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New data on the distribution of distant trans-Neptunian objects and on the properties of comets indicate the importance of dynamical processes in the outer part of the protoplanetary disk in the formation of the observed structure of the Solar System. In this paper, we examined the possible action of giant gaseous clumps, resulting from gravitational instability and fragmentation of circumstellar disks, on the orbital distribution of the population of small bodies in the outer Solar System. Basically, we studied those features of migration and gravitational interaction of giant clumps that were identified previously by Vorobyov and Elbakyan (2018). Our modeling showed that the main features of the distribution of small bodies resulting from the gravitational influence of giant clumps are consistent with the observed orbital distribution of distant trans-Neptunian objects. The studied dynamical process associated with a single giant clump is very short-time event (no more than several tens of thousands of years). The main factor affecting the orbital distribution of small bodies is close encounters with the giant clump. A significant part of small bodies (comets) is very quickly transferred to distant orbits with large eccentricities, which allows them to avoid mutual collisions.
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The calculations were carried out using the MVS-100K supercomputer of the Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The author would like to thank I. I. Shevchenko for useful comments.
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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 17-12-01441).
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Emel’yanenko, V.V. Migration of Giant Gaseous Clumps and Structure of the Outer Solar System. Sol Syst Res 54, 64–69 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094620010013
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