Terrestrial planet and asteroid belt formation by Jupiter–Saturn chaotic excitation

Abstract The terrestrial planets formed by accretion of asteroid-like objects within the inner solar system’s protoplanetary disk. Previous works have found that forming a small-mass Mars requires the disk to contain little mass beyond ~ 1.5 au (i.e., the disk mass was concentrated within this bound...

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Main Authors: Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Takashi Ito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30382-9