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Direct contact binary planetesimal formation from gravitational collapse
Jackson T. Barnes, Stephen R. Schwartz, Seth A. Jacobson
Bilobate contact binaries comprise a significant fraction of the relict Kuiper Belt, which includes the exemplary contact binary (486958) Arrokoth. The surfaces of its lobes contai…
Formation of Planetesimals in the Outer Solar System
Anders Johansen, Michele T. Bannister, Luke Dones +4
The Solar System hosts the most studied and best understood major and minor planetary bodies - and the only extraterrestrial bodies to have been visited by spacecraft. The Solar Sy…
Orbits of very distant asteroid satellites
K. Minker, B. Carry, F. Vachier +36
The very wide binary asteroid (VWBA) population is a small subset of the population of known binary and multiple asteroids made of systems with very widely orbiting satellites and…
Tungsten isotope evolution during Earth's formation and new constraints on the viability of accretion simulations
D. C. Rubie, K. I. Dale, G. Nathan +5
The Hf-W isotopic system is the reference chronometer for determining the chronology of Earth's accretion and differentiation. However, its results depend strongly on uncertain par…
BYORP and Dissipation in Binary Asteroids: Lessons from DART
Matija Äuk, Harrison Agrusa, Rachel H. Cueva +10
The Near-Earth binary asteroid Didymos was the target of a planetary defense demonstration mission DART in September 2022. The smaller binary component, Dimorphos, was impacted by…
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…