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Irregular Satellites of the Giant Planets

@inproceedings{Nicholson2008IrregularSO,
  title={Irregular Satellites of the Giant Planets},
  author={Philip D. Nicholson and Matija {\'C}uk and Scott S. Sheppard and David Nesvorn{\'y} and Torrence V. Johnson},
  year={2008},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:32512508}
}
The irregular satellites of the outer planets, whose population now numbers over 100, are likely to have been captured from heliocentric orbit during the early period of solar system history. They may thus constitute an intact sample of the planetesimals that accreted to form the cores of the jovian planets. Ranging in diameter from ~2 km to over 300 km, these bodies overlap the lower end of the presently known population of transneptunian objects (TNOs). Their size distributions, however… 
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