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Forming Mercury from excited initial conditions
Jennifer Scora, Diana Valencia, Alessandro Morbidelli +1
Mercury is notoriously difficult to form in solar system simulations, due to its small mass and iron-rich composition. Smooth particle hydrodynamics simulations of collisions have…
Terrestrial planet formation from a ring: long-term simulations accounting for the giant planet instability
J. M. Y. Woo, D. Nesvorny, J. Scora +1
The process leading to the formation of the terrestrial planet remains elusive. In a previous publication, we have shown that, if the first generation of planetesimals forms in a r…
Rocky histories: The effect of high excitations on the formation of rocky planets
Jennifer Scora, Diana Valencia, Alessandro Morbidelli +1
Rocky planets both in and outside of our solar system are observed to have a range of core-mass fractions (CMFs). Imperfect collisions can preferentially strip mantle material from…
Chemical Diversity of Super-Earths As a Consequence of Formation
Jennifer Scora, Diana Valencia, Alessandro Morbidelli +1
Recent observations of rocky super-Earths have revealed an apparent wider distribution of Fe/Mg ratios, or core to mantle ratios, than the planets in our Solar System. This study a…