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Description: The secular evolution of extreme transneptunian objects with semi-major axes of 250 AU under the influence of hypothetical Planet Nine. Green curves for meta-stable objects, red curves for aligned objects, blue curves for anti-aligned objects, orange curve for circulating objects. Arrows shows direction of evolution with time. Above black curve orbits intercept that of Planet Nine.
Title: Secular evolution of eTNOs induced by Planet Nine
Credit: I used Excel to roughly sketch curves of the Hamiltonian plotted in Figure 2 of Batygin and Morbidelli 2017
Author: Agmartin based on data from Figure 2 of Batygin and Morbidelli 2017
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