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Orbital parameters of planets (blue studs) and 141864 asteroids (red points) around the 200 nearest stars 1 Gyr ago. Here the right-most light-blue curve gives the approximate inner edge of the Oort cloud using a mean local stellar mass of ∼1.0 M and a mean distance according to the Sun’s Hill radius in the Galatic potential (∼0.65 pc, red vertical line). The vertical dashed and dotted curves give the smallest and largest Hill radii experienced by any star throughout the simulations. The inner light-blue curve is given for a relative perturbation of δv = 10−8, and the outer light-blue curve gives δv = 10−5. The green curve gives the distance from the host star for which the circularization timescale of the Galactic tidal field is comparable to the eccentricity pumping timescale of a test particle in the conveyor belt. The orbital configuration at the present epoch, 1 Gyr after the start of the simulation, is presented here. This figure is generated with the Python script plot_semimajor_axis_vs_eccentricity_of_planets_and_comets.py. This script, the required data, and the scripts to generate any of the figures in this manuscript including all required data are available through figshare.

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