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Atmospheric loss in giant impacts depends on pre-impact surface conditions
Simon J. Lock, Sarah T. Stewart
Earth likely acquired much of its inventory of volatile elements during the main stage of its formation. Some of Earth's proto-atmosphere must therefore have survived the giant imp…
Tidal Evolution of the Earth-Moon System with a High Initial Obliquity
Matija Ćuk, Simon J. Lock, Sarah T. Stewart +1
A giant impact origin for the Moon is generally accepted, but many aspects of lunar formation remain poorly understood and debated. Ćuk et al. (2016) proposed that an impact that l…
Origin of the Moon
Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter, Nicolas Dauphas +8
The Earth-Moon system is unusual in several respects. The Moon is roughly 1/4 the radius of the Earth - a larger satellite-to-planet size ratio than all known satellites other than…
Giant impacts stochastically change the internal pressures of terrestrial planets
Simon J. Lock, Sarah T. Stewart
Pressure is a key parameter in the physics and chemistry of planet formation and evolution. Previous studies have erroneously assumed that internal pressures monotonically increase…
Clustering-informed Cinematic Astrophysical Data Visualization with Application to the Moon-forming Terrestrial Synestia
Patrick D. Aleo, Simon J. Lock, Donna J. Cox +5
Scientific visualization tools are currently not optimized to create cinematic, production-quality representations of numerical data for the purpose of science communication. In ou…
The energy budgets of giant impacts
Philip J Carter, Simon J Lock, Sarah T Stewart
Giant impacts dominate the final stages of terrestrial planet formation and set the configuration and compositions of the final system of planets. A giant impact is believed to be…