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Eight billion asteroids in the Oort cloud
Andrew Shannon, Alan P. Jackson, Dimitri Veras +1
The Oort cloud is usually thought of as a collection of icy comets inhabiting the outer reaches of the Solar system, but this picture is incomplete. We use simulations of the forma…
Molecular Gas Clumps from the Destruction of Icy Bodies in the Pictoris Debris Disk
W. R. F. Dent, M. C. Wyatt, A. Roberge +11
Many stars are surrounded by disks of dusty debris formed in the collisions of asteroids, comets and dwarf planets. But is gas also released in such events? Observations at submm w…
Debris from giant impacts between planetary embryos at large orbital radii
Alan P. Jackson, Mark C. Wyatt, Amy Bonsor +1
We consider the observational signatures of giant impacts between planetary embryos. While the debris released in the impact remains in a clump for only a single orbit, there is a…