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Caption: Figure 2.
Purple: the increase of Naiad’s inclination as a function of its semimajor axis in a 3 × 105 yr simulation that included only Naiad and Thalassa, starting from the present day, and using Q/k2 = 33 for Neptune (i.e., it was accelerated by at least a factor of 1000). Green: a simple approximation of this dependence as ﹩i=7\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x000b0}}195\sqrt{2.378-a}﹩.
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