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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Terrestrial Planet Formation: Constraining the Formation of Mercury

   Lykawka and Itô · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

   Using 110 N-body simulations of terrestrial planet formation, the authors studied how Mercury might form; Venus and Earth analogs formed readily, but Mercury and Mars analogs were rare.

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   1. UncheckedIn these simulations, the Mercury-like planets that formed sat at about 0.27-0.34 au, with low eccentricities and inclinations and a median mass near 0.2 Earth masses.“Our Mercury analogs concentrated at orbits with a ~ 0.27-0.34 au, relatively small eccentricities/inclinations, and median mass m ~ 0.2 Earth masses.”
   2. UncheckedIn these simulations, Mercury analogs gathered most of their mass from material between 0.2 and about 1–1.5 au within 10 Myr, and the rest from up to about 3 au later.“In addition, we found that our Mercury analogs acquired most of their final masses from embryos/planetesimals initially located between 0.2 and ~1-1.5 au within 10 Myr, while the remaining mass came from a wider region up to ~3 au at later times.”
   3. UncheckedIn these simulations, the ice line barely mattered for forming planets in Mercury's region, yet it supplied water to all the terrestrial planets.“Although the ice line was negligible in the formation of planets located in the Mercury region, it enriched all terrestrial planets with water.”