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2. Large Planetesimals in the Early Solar System
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Inventories in sizes of large planetesimals can be estimated for different periods in the late planet-forming process by different techniques. For example, tabulations of craters on Mercury, the moon, and Mars give direct evidence of asteroid-like size distribution including bodies in excess of 100 km diameter. Large bodies exceeding, 1000 km diameter probably existed earlier. Consequences of interactions between planets and such bodies are considered.
- Type
- Part V. Orbital Evolution and Fragmentation of Asteroids
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 39: Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites: Interrelations, Evolution and Origins , December 1977 , pp. 277 - 281
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- Copyright © A.H. Delsemme 1977