Dynamical evolution of the early solar system

D Nesvorný - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Several properties of the Solar System, including the wide radial spacing of the giant
planets, can be explained if planets radially migrated by exchanging orbital energy and …

The late heavy bombardment

WF Bottke, MD Norman - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Heavily cratered surfaces on the Moon, Mars, and Mercury show that the terrestrial planets
were battered by an intense bombardment during their first billion years or more, but the …

[HTML][HTML] Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

JH Bédard - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
The lower plate is the dominant agent in modern convergent margins characterized by
active subduction, as negatively buoyant oceanic lithosphere sinks into the asthenosphere …

[图书][B] Atmospheric evolution on inhabited and lifeless worlds

DC Catling, JF Kasting - 2017 - books.google.com
As the search for Earth-like exoplanets gathers pace, in order to understand them, we need
comprehensive theories for how planetary atmospheres form and evolve. Written by two well …

The crust of the Moon as seen by GRAIL

MA Wieczorek, GA Neumann, F Nimmo, WS Kiefer… - Science, 2013 - science.org
High-resolution gravity data obtained from the dual Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
(GRAIL) spacecraft show that the bulk density of the Moon's highlands crust is 2550 …

Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents

TE Johnson, CL Kirkland, Y Lu, RH Smithies, M Brown… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Earth is the only planet known to have continents, although how they formed and evolved is
unclear. Here using the oxygen isotope compositions of dated magmatic zircon, we show …

The effect of Jupiter's formation on the distribution of refractory elements and inclusions in meteorites

SJ Desch, A Kalyaan… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive evolutionary model of the Sun's protoplanetary disk,
constructed to resolve the" CAI storage problem" of meteoritics. We predict the abundances …

The timeline of the lunar bombardment: Revisited

A Morbidelli, D Nesvorny, V Laurenz, S Marchi… - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
The timeline of the lunar bombardment in the first Gy of Solar System history remains
unclear. Basin-forming impacts (eg Imbrium, Orientale), occurred 3.9–3.7 Gy ago, ie 600 …

Statistical study of the early solar system's instability with four, five, and six giant planets

D Nesvorný, A Morbidelli - The Astronomical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Several properties of the solar system, including the wide radial spacing and orbital
eccentricities of giant planets, can be explained if the early solar system evolved through a …

Origin and evolution of the atmospheres of early Venus, Earth and Mars

H Lammer, AL Zerkle, S Gebauer, N Tosi… - The Astronomy and …, 2018 - Springer
We review the origin and evolution of the atmospheres of Earth, Venus and Mars from the
time when their accreting bodies were released from the protoplanetary disk a few million …