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From icy planetesimals to outer planets and comets
- Source :
- Icarus. 59
- Publication Year :
- 1984
- Publisher :
- United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1984.
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Abstract
- The growth of Neptune and Uranus and the origin of the Oort comet cloud are simulated numerically, applying the planetesimal-growth model developed by Greenberg et al. (1978) for the terrestrial planets. The results of 12 experiments are presented in graphs and tables and discussed in detail. In the model which best fits observations, the planets grow relatively quickly from icy planetesimals of diameter 10 km or less which form by gravitational clumping of grains as they settle nonhomologously to the midplane of the solar system; the comets then represent unaltered remnants of the original planetesimal populations in the zone.
- Subjects :
- Lunar And Planetary Exploration
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00191035
- Volume :
- 59
- Database :
- NASA Technical Reports
- Journal :
- Icarus
- Notes :
- NASW-3516
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsnas.19840061832
- Document Type :
- Report
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(84)90058-7