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Chromite in main group pallasite meteorites: Accessory mineral tracing planetesimal differentiation

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Main group pallasite meteorites (PMG) are samples of an early, highly differentiated magmatic planetesimal dominated by olivine and metal‐sulfide‐phosphide assemblages with accessory chromite among other phases. This mineralogy reflects mantle‐ and core‐related reservoirs, but the relative contributions of each and the overall petrogenesis are
Seann J. McKibbin, Lutz Hecht, Matthew S. Huber, Christina Makarona, Stepan M. Chernonozhkin, Philippe Claeys, Steven Goderis   +6 more
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Forming Chondrites in a Solar Nebula with Magnetically Induced Turbulence

, 2016
Chondritic meteorites provide valuable opportunities to investigate the origins of the solar system. We explore impact jetting as a mechanism of chondrule formation and subsequent pebble accretion as a mechanism of accreting chondrules onto parent bodies
Hasegawa, Yasuhiro, Masiero, Joseph, Matsumoto, Yuji, Oshino, Shoichi, Turner, Neal J., Wakita, Shigeru   +5 more
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On the Early Thermal Processing of Planetesimals during and after the Giant Planet Instability

The Planetary Science Journal
Born as ice-rich planetesimals, cometary nuclei were gravitationally scattered onto their current orbits in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud during the giant planets’ dynamical instability in the early stages of our solar system’s history.
Anastasios Gkotsinas, David Nesvorný, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Sean N. Raymond, Nathan Kaib   +4 more
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The Influence of Cold Jupiters in the Formation of Close-in Planets. I. Planetesimal Transport

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The formation of a cold Jupiter (CJ) is expected to quench the influx of pebbles and the migration of cores interior to its orbit, thus limiting the efficiency of rocky planet formation either by pebble accretion and/or orbital migration.
Marcy Best, Antranik A. Sefilian, Cristobal Petrovich   +2 more
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The effect of pressure on dihedral angle between liquid Fe‐S and orthopyroxene: Implication for percolative core formation in planetesimals and planetary embryos

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract During precursor stages of planet formation, many planetesimals and planetary embryos are considered to have differentiated, forming an iron‐alloy core and silicate mantle. Percolation of liquid iron‐alloy in solid silicates is one of the major possible differentiation processes in these small bodies.
Takumi Miura, Hidenori Terasaki, Hyu Takaki, Kotaro Kobayashi, Geoffrey David Bromiley, Takashi Yoshino   +5 more
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Pebble formation by ice condensation

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2013
Pebbles with sizes of centimeters to decimeters are needed in order to form kilometer-sized planetesimals, which in turn are needed for planet formation to proceed. The well-studied mechanism of coagulation is efficient only up to millimeter-sized dust
Ros Katrin
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of Terrestrial Planetary Bodies and Implications for Habitability

Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 63, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract The terrestrial planetary bodies of our solar system—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—share a common origin through nebular accretion and early magma ocean differentiation, yet they diverged significantly in geological evolution, tectonic regimes, and habitability.
Peter A. Cawood, Eva E. Stüeken, Priyadarshi Chowdhury, Chris J. Hawkesworth, Jacob A. Mulder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Secular dynamics of planetesimals in tight binary systems: Application to Gamma-Cephei

, 2011
The secular dynamics of small planetesimals in tight binary systems play a fundamental role in establishing the possibility of accretional collisions in such extreme cases.
A. M. Leiva, Beaugé, Beaugé, Beaugé, Beaugé, C. A. Giuppone, C. Beaugé, Campbell, Carpino, Correa Otto, Duquennoy, Fragner, Giuppone, Gontcharov, Griffin, Haghighipour, Hatzes, Henrard, Heppenheimer, Hori, J. Correa-Otto, Kaula, Kley, Knezeviíc, Marzari, Marzari, Marzari, Mayor, Michtchenko, Michtchenko, Michtchenko, Neishtadt, Nelson, Neuhäuser, Paardekooper, Paardekooper, Terquem, Thébault, Thébault, Thébault, Torres, Tsukamoto, Verrier, Walker, Xie, Xie, Xie, Zsom, Ćuk   +48 more
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Detailed Calculations of the Efficiency of Planetesimal Accretion in the Core-accretion Model. III. The Contribution of Planetesimals beyond Saturn

The Astrophysical Journal
Continuing our initiative on advancing the calculations of planetesimal accretion in the core-accretion model, we present here the results of our recent study of the contributions of planetesimals around and beyond the orbit of Saturn.
Nader Haghighipour, Morris Podolak, Esther Podolak   +2 more
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Boulders on Bennu: Low Apparent Thermal Inertia Caused by Thermal Fatigue Fractures

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 52, Issue 21, 16 November 2025.
Abstract Boulders covering the surfaces of asteroids Bennu and Ryugu have apparent thermal inertias substantially lower than their meteorite analogs. This has led to the inference that boulders on Bennu may be unlike any known meteorite. However, samples returned from Ryugu have a thermal inertia 3.5 times higher than the apparent thermal inertia ...
Catherine M. Elder
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