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Plasma vortices driven by magnetic torsion generated by electric currents in non-magnetic planetary wakes
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola, Alberto Flandes, Hector Perez-de-Tejada
In non-collisional magnetized astrophysical plasmas, vortices can form as it is the case of the Venus plasma wake where Lundin et al. (2013) identified a large vortex through the i…
Ejecta Speed with the Projectile Velocity less than 2 km/s
Hector J. Durand-Manterola, Alvaro Suarez-Cortés
This work is a theoretical study of the speed at which the material of an impacted target is ejected during the formation of an impact crater. Our model, starting from the first pr…
Possible scenarios that the New Horizons spacecraft may find in its close encounter with Pluto
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola, Hector Perez-de-Tejada
Next year, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will have a close encounter with Pluto. In the present study we discuss some possibilities regarding what the spacecraft may encounter…
Assessments of the energy, mass and size of the Chicxulub Impactor
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola, Guadalupe Cordero-Tercero
In 1980, Alvarez and colleagues proposed that, in the transition from the Cretaceous to Paleogene, a large impactor collided with Earth being the cause of the mass extinction occur…
Lithium generated by cosmic rays: an estimator of the time that Mars had a thicker atmosphere and liquid water
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
Lithium is overabundant in cosmic rays because protons impact on carbon and oxygen nuclei and fission them. Among the products of this fission is lithium. Given this preference for…
Acceleration of particles in an isotropic random force field
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
If we have a particle immersed in a field of random forces, each interaction of the particle with the field can enlarge or diminish its kinetic energy. In this work is shown that i…
Planets: Power Laws and Classification
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
The study of the interior of the planets requires the knowledge of how certain parameters, as radius and mean density, vary according to the planet mass. The aim of this work is to…
Free-floating planets: a viable option for panspermia
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
Genomic complexity can be used as a clock with which the moment in which life originated can be measured. Some authors who have studied this problem have come to the conclusion tha…
Dipolar Magnetic Moment of the Bodies of the Solar System and the Hot Jupiters
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
The planets magnetic field has been explained based on the dynamo theory, which presents as many difficulties in mathematical terms as well as in predictions. It proves to be extre…
Superrotation on Venus: Driven By Waves Generated By Dissipation of the Transterminator Flow
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
Context: The superrotation phenomenon in the atmosphere on Venus has been known since the late 60's. But until now no mechanism proposed has satisfactorily explained this phenomeno…
Archean Paleo-climate: The first snowball?
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
The model accepted is one where during the Archean Eon the Earths climate was clement despite the weaker Sun. The observational evidence that supports this concept is: the emergenc…
Martian gullies: Produced by fluidization of dry material
Yolanda Cedillo-Flores, Héctor Javier Durand-Manterola
The gullies on Mars were discovered in the year 1999.Since then several hypotheses have appeared trying to explain the presence of these gullies. The main hypotheses are the ones w…