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Low strength and a shared size distribution connect the hot and cold Kuiper belt populations [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsUnderstanding how the observed size distribution of Kuiper Belt objects emerged from the primordial planetesimal population remains a major challenge in planetary science.
P. G. Benavidez +3 more
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Recurrent planetesimal formation in an outer part of the early solar system [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe formation of planets in our solar system encompassed various stages of accretion of planetesimals that formed in the protoplanetary disk within the first few million years at different distances to the sun.
Wladimir Neumann +3 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We investigate the orbital evolution of planetesimals in the inner disk in the presence of nebula gas and a (proto-) cold Jupiter. By varying the mass, eccentricity, and semimajor axis of the planet, we study the dependence of the relative velocities of ...
Kangrou Guo, Eiichiro Kokubo
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Ice Sublimation in Planetesimals Formed at the Outward Migrating Snowline
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 Isotopic studies of meteorites suggest that planetesimals were formed as two distinct populations: noncarbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (CC) reservoirs.
Zhongtian Zhang
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Pore Network Modeling of Core Forming Melts in Planetesimals
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 Early in the history of the solar system, planetesimals were differentiated into metallic cores. In some planetesimals, this differentiation took place by percolation of the denser core forming liquid through a lighter solid silicate matrix. A key factor
Giulio F. D. Solferino +2 more
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Planetesimal Growth in Evolving Protoplanetary Disks: Constraints from the Pebble Supply
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 In the core accretion model, planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and engulfing millimeter-to-centimeter particles, i.e., pebbles. Pebble accretion can significantly increase the accretion efficiency and help explain the presence of planets on wide ...
Tong Fang +4 more
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High-resolution Study of Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Collapse of Pebble Clouds
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Planetary embryos are built through the collisional growth of 10–100 km-sized objects called planetesimals, a formerly large population of objects, of which asteroids, comets, and Kuiper Belt objects represent the leftovers from planet formation in our ...
Brooke Polak, Hubert Klahr
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Planets in Binaries: Formation and Dynamical Evolution
Galaxies, 2019 Binary systems are very common among field stars, yet the vast majority of known exoplanets have been detected around single stars. While this relatively small number of planets in binaries is probably partly due to strong observational biases, there is,
Francesco Marzari, Philippe Thebault
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Thanks to “dust-to-planet” simulations (DTPSs), which treat the collisional evolution directly from dust to giant-planet cores in a protoplanetary disk, we showed that giant-planet cores are formed in ≲10 au in several 10 ^5 yr, because porous pebbles ...
Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hidekazu Tanaka
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Possible Ribose Synthesis in Carbonaceous Planetesimals
Life, 2022 The origin of life might be sparked by the polymerization of the first RNA molecules in Darwinian ponds during wet-dry cycles. The key life-building block ribose was found in carbonaceous chondrites.
Klaus Paschek +7 more
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