5 papers
The Enceladian crater production function
E. W. Wong, S. C. Werner, M. R. Kirchoff +1
Interpreting Enceladus's past and present surface history and interior state remains challenging, owing to uncertain prescription of its impact bombardment history and limited inte…
Impact chronology of leftover planetesimals
R. Brasser
After the formation of the Moon the terrestrial planets were pummelled by impacts from planetesimals left over from terrestrial planet formation. This work attempts to reproduce th…
Forming Earth-like and Low-Mass Rocky Exoplanets Through Pebble and Planetesimal Accretion
Mitchell John Yzer, Ramon Brasser, Inge Loes ten Kate
The theory of planet formation through pebble accretion (PA) has gained in popularity over the past decade. Most PA studies start with planetary embryos much larger than those expe…
The current cratering rate on the regular satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus
R. Brasser, E. W. Wong, S. C. Werner
We aim to compute the impact rates for objects with a diameter of 1 km onto the regular satellites of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus using our latest dynamical simulations of the evolu…
Terrestrial planet formation during giant planet formation and giant planet migration I: The first 5 million years
R. Brasser
Terrestrial planet formation (TPF) is a difficult problem that has vexed researchers for decades. Numerical models are only partially successful at reproducing the orbital architec…