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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Mercury’s formation within the early instability scenario

   Clement, Chambers, Kaib, Raymond and Jackson · Icarus · 2023

   The authors model all four terrestrial planets and the giant planets' early orbital evolution together, testing how Mercury's core, mass and orbit emerge in different setups.

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   1. UncheckedSimulations favour Mercury forming through violent, erosive collisions among several Mercury-mass embryos in the inner part of the terrestrial disk.“By evaluating our Mercury analogs' core mass fractions, masses, and orbital offsets from Venus, we favor a scenario where Mercury forms through a series of violent erosive collisions between a number of ~Mercury-mass embryos in the inner part of the terrestrial disk.”
   2. UncheckedIn simulations starting Jupiter and Saturn in a 2:1 resonance, the Mercury-forming region is often emptied and Earth and Venus are overly excited.“In 2:1 cases, the entire Mercury-forming region is often depleted due to strong sweeping secular resonances that also tend to overly excite the orbits of Earth and Venus as they grow.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   OSSOS. XXVI. On the Lack of Catastrophic Collisions in the Present Kuiper Belt

   Abedin, Kavelaars, Petit et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2022

   The authors modelled impact energies among observed Kuiper Belt objects to test whether collisions have ground the population down since it formed, and found little sign of catastrophic collisions at present.

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   1. UncheckedMost collisions between objects in the Kuiper Belt today are cratering impacts, not ones that break the bodies apart, according to this study.“We conclude that presently, most of the collisions in the trans-Neptunian region are in the cratering rather than disruption regime.”
   2. UncheckedBecause collisions among cold classical Kuiper Belt objects are rare, their size distribution most likely reflects how planetesimals first formed.“Given the low collision rates among the cold classical Kuiper Belt objects, their SFD most likely represents the primordial planetesimal accretion.”