Structure of differentiated planetesimals: A chondritic fridge on top of a magma ocean

C Sturtz, A Limare, M Chaussidon, É Kaminski - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
Meteorites are interpreted as relics of early formed planetary bodies, and they provide
information about the processes that occurred in the first few Myrs of our solar system. The …

[HTML][HTML] On the relationship between solid particle attractors and thermal inhomogeneities in vibrationally driven fluid-particle systems

BM Santhosh, M Lappa - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The present analysis extends earlier authors' work [Crewdson et al.,“Two-dimensional
vibrationally-driven solid particle structures in non-uniformly heated fluid containers,” Chaos …

[HTML][HTML] The thermal equation of state of the magma Ocean

R Caracas - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
As the protolunar disk formed by the giant impact with the incoming asteroid Theia started to
cool, the Earth condensed in its center as a molten planet. The outer layer, rich in lithophile …

Birth and decline of magma oceans in planetesimals: 2. Structure and thermal history of early accreted small planetary bodies

C Sturtz, A Limare, S Tait… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This is the second of two companion papers that present a theoretical and experimental
study of the thermal history of planetesimals in which heating by short‐lived radioactive …