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Mercury's formation within the Early Instability Scenario
Matthew S. Clement, John E. Chambers, Nathan A. Kaib +2
The inner solar system's modern orbital architecture provides inferences into the epoch of terrestrial planet formation; a ~100 Myr time period of planet growth via collisions with…
Mercury as the relic of Earth and Venus' outward migration
Matthew S. Clement, Sean N. Raymond, John E. Chambers
In spite of substantial advancements in simulating planet formation, the planet Mercury's diminutive mass, isolated orbit, and the absence of planets with shorter orbital periods i…
Exploring tidal obliquity variations with SMERCURY-T
Steven M. Kreyche, Jason W. Barnes, Billy L. Quarles +1
We introduce our new code, SMERCURY-T, which is based on existing codes SMERCURY (Lissauer et al. 2012) and Mercury-T (Bolmont et al. 2015). The result is a mixed-variable symplect…
The early instability scenario: Mars' mass explained by Jupiter's orbit
Matthew S. Clement, Nathan A. Kaib, Sean N. Raymond +1
The formation of the solar system's giant planets predated the ultimate epoch of massive impacts that concluded the process of terrestrial planet formation. Following their formati…
Born extra-eccentric: A broad spectrum of primordial configurations of the gas giants that match their present-day orbits
Matthew S. Clement, Rogerio Deienno, Nathan A. Kaib +3
In a recent paper we proposed that the giant planets' primordial orbits may have been eccentric (~0.05), and used a suite of dynamical simulations to show outcomes of the giant pla…
Dynamical avenues for Mercury's origin II: in-situ formation in the inner terrestrial disk
Matthew S. Clement, John E. Chambers
Modern terrestrial planet formation models are highly successful at consistently generating planets with masses and orbits analogous to those of Earth and Venus. In stark contrast…