What Can Meteorites Tell Us About the Formation of Jupiter?

Abstract Gas giants like Jupiter are a fundamental component of planetary systems, but how they formed has been uncertain. Here we discuss how paleomagnetic records in meteorites of the solar nebula may tell us about Jupiter's final growth stage. We suggest that under certain testable assumptio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benjamin P. Weiss, William F. Bottke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-06-01
Series:AGU Advances
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000376