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astro-ph.EP2017★ 18 cited
Fast litho-panspermia in the habitable zone of the TRAPPIST-1 system
Sebastiaan Krijt, Timothy J. Bowling, Richard J. Lyons +1
With several short-period, Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone, the TRAPPIST-1 system potentially allows litho-panspermia to take place on very short timescales. We investigat…
astro-ph.EP2015★ 51 cited
Dynamic Sublimation Pressure and the Catastrophic Breakup of Comet ISON
Jordan K. Steckloff, Brandon C. Johnson, Timothy Bowling +4
Previously proposed mechanisms have difficulty explaining the disruption of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as it approached the Sun. We describe a novel cometary disruption mechanism where…