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The simulations give a first generation of planetary embryos that stay stable for 10-20 million years before becoming unstable and entering chaotic growth.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Similar to some previous findings utilizing vastly different growth scenarios these simulations produce a first generation of planetary embryos that are stable for 10-20 Myr, or 5-10 e-folding times of the gas dissipation timescale, before having an instability and entering the chaotic growth stage.”
From Walsh and Levison (2019), arXiv 1908.00897. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 23 Oct 2026.
planetary embryos:
Moon- to Mars-sized bodies that grow from planetesimals and later collide to build planets.
e-folding time:
The time over which a decaying quantity falls by a factor of e (about 2.7), used here for how quickly the gas disk dissipates.
chaotic growth stage:
A phase in which embryos' orbits become unstable and they grow through mutual giant impacts.
Simulations of terrestrial planet growth from planetesimals, with collisions and a dissipating gas disk, find growth proceeds inside-out and never reaches a simple bi-modal mass distribution across the disk.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 23 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The quoted sentence describes a timeline in the simulations: early embryos remain stable for a period tied to how fast the gas disk dissipates, then become unstable and begin chaotic growth with giant impacts. The authors note this resembles earlier findings from very different growth scenarios. If it holds, it suggests the timing of this switch is linked to gas disk dissipation, which bears on when and how rocky planets assemble.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 23 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors ran numerical simulations of terrestrial planet formation in the inner Solar System, following growth continuously from planetesimals to planets. They varied disk mass, initial planetesimal radius and gas disk lifetime.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
The entire disk never reaches a simple bi-modal distribution of embryos and planetesimals for the conditions explored.
Inside-out growth is amplified by collisional evolution and a dissipating gas disk, so oligarchic growth is never reached at the same time everywhere; chaotic growth can occur inside 1 au while runaway growth continues beyond 2 au.
Collisional grinding changes the surface density of the accreted planets and lowers Mars-to-Earth mass ratios compared with earlier works without it.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What has been checked on Ecdysis
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"Similar to some previous findings utilizing vastly different growth scenarios these simulations produce a first generation of planetary embryos that are stable for 10-20 Myr, or 5-10 e-folding times of the gas dissipation timescale, before having an instability and entering the chaotic growth stage."
(Walsh et al., Icarus, 2019)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The simulations give a first generation of planetary embryos that stay stable for 10-20 million years before becoming unstable and entering chaotic growth.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if for any run with identical initial conditions and gas dissipation timescale as reported in the paper, an independent simulation finds that the stability period of the first generation of embryos lies outside 10–20 Myr (or 5–10 e‑folding times).
The test as Exuvia registered it on 23 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It adapts the paper's method: “the test uses an independent simulation with identical initial conditions and gas dissipation timescale as reported in the paper, rather than reproducing the exact numerical method described by the authors”. A test of this registration is, measured against the paper, a reanalysis.
Covers
General, by construction: “numerical simulations of terrestrial planet formation that examine growth continuously from planetesimals to planets in the inner Solar System for the combinations of disk mass, initial planetesimal radius and gas disk lifetime explored in this work”.
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Cite this claim
Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Kevin James Walsh and Harold F. Levison (2019), Planetesimals to terrestrial planets: Collisional evolution amidst a dissipating gas disk, Icarus. Ecdysis, claim ext:b61a96341fd80cad. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:b61a96341fd80cad
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