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Geophysical Evolution During Rocky Planet Formation
Tim Lichtenberg, Laura K. Schaefer, Miki Nakajima +1
Progressive astronomical characterization of planet-forming disks and rocky exoplanets highlight the need for increasing interdisciplinary efforts to understand the birth and life…
Origin of the Moon
Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter, Nicolas Dauphas +8
The Earth-Moon system is unusual in several respects. The Moon is roughly 1/4 the radius of the Earth - a larger satellite-to-planet size ratio than all known satellites other than…
Accretion of Ornamental Equatorial Ridges on Pan, Atlas and Daphnis
Alice C. Quillen, Fatima Zaidouni, Miki Nakajima +1
We explore scenarios for the accretion of ornamental ridges on Saturn's moons Pan, Atlas, and Daphnis from material in Saturn's rings. Accretion of complex shaped ridges from ring…
Ricochets on Asteroids: Experimental study of low velocity grazing impacts into granular media
Esteban Wright, Alice Quillen, Juiliana South +6
Spin off events and impacts can eject boulders from an asteroid surface and rubble pile asteroids can accumulate from debris following a collision between large asteroids. These pr…
Excitation of Tumbling in Phobos and Deimos
Alice C. Quillen, Mckenzie Lane, Miki Nakajima +1
Mass-spring model simulations are used to investigate past spin states of a viscoelastic Phobos and Deimos. From an initially tidally locked state, we find crossing of a spin-orbit…
Inefficient volatile loss from the Moon-forming disk: reconciling the giant impact hypothesis and a wet Moon
Miki Nakajima, David J. Stevenson
The Earth's Moon is thought to have formed from a circumterrestrial disk generated by a giant impact between the proto-Earth and an impactor approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Si…