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Extreme close encounters between proto-Mercury and proto-Venus in terrestrial planet formation
- Source :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496:3781-3785
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020.
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Abstract
- Modern models of terrestrial planet formation require solids depletion interior to 0.5-0.7 au in the planetesimal disk to explain the small mass of Mercury. Earth and Venus analogues emerge after ~100 Myr collisional growth while Mercury form in the diffusive tails of the planetesimal disk. We carried out 250 N-body simulations of planetesimal disks with mass confined to 0.7-1.0 au to study the statistics of close encounters which were recently proposed as an explanation for the high iron mass fraction in Mercury by Deng (2020). We formed 39 Mercury analogues in total and all proto-Mercury analogues were scattered inward by proto-Venus. Proto-Mercury typically experiences 6 extreme close encounters (closest approach smaller than 6 Venus radii) with Proto-Venus after Proto-Venus acquires 0.7 Venus Mass. At such close separation, the tidal interaction can already affect the orbital motion significantly such that the N-body treatment itself is invalid. More and closer encounters are expected should tidal dissipation of orbital angular momentum accounted. Hybrid N-body hydrodynamic simulations, treating orbital and encounter dynamics self-consistently, are desirable to evaluate the degree of tidal mantle stripping of proto-Mercury.<br />MNRAS published
- Subjects :
- Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Physics
Angular momentum
Planetesimal
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
biology
FOS: Physical sciences
chemistry.chemical_element
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Venus
biology.organism_classification
01 natural sciences
Mantle (geology)
Astrobiology
Mercury (element)
chemistry
Space and Planetary Science
Physics::Space Physics
0103 physical sciences
Orbital motion
Terrestrial planet
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 13652966 and 00358711
- Volume :
- 496
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8bd714527fdaa96694c22fb447516d24