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Asteroids fail to retain cometary impact signatures
Sarah Joiret, Guillaume Avice, Ludovic Ferrière +4
A bombardment of comets is thought to have occurred in the inner solar system as a result of a dynamical instability among the giant planets after gas disk dispersal. Vesta, the se…
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Atmospheric loss during giant impacts: mechanisms and scaling of near- and far-field loss
Matthew J. Roche, Simon J. Lock, Jingyao Dou +3
The primary epoch of planetary accretion concludes with giant impacts - highly energetic collisions between proto-planets that can play a key role in shaping a planet's inventory o…