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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Planetesimals to terrestrial planets: Collisional evolution amidst a dissipating gas disk

   Walsh and Levison · Icarus · 2019

   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.

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   1. Unchecked“For the combinations of disk mass, initial planetesimal radius and gas disk lifetime explored in this work the entire disk never reaches a simple bi-modal mass distribution.”
   2. UncheckedThe simulations give a first generation of planetary embryos that stay stable for 10-20 million years before becoming unstable and entering chaotic growth.“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.”