- A
protoplanet is a
large planetary embryo that
originated within a
protoplanetary disk and has
undergone internal melting to
produce a differentiated...
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about direct interactions with
planetary regoliths.
Ceres is a
surviving protoplanet that
formed 4.56 billion
years ago;
alongside Pallas and Vesta, one of...
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asteroid to have been discovered,
after Ceres, and is
likely a
remnant protoplanet. Like Ceres, it is
believed to have a
mineral composition similar to...
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Theia (/ˈθiːə/) is a
hypothesized ancient planet in the
early Solar System which,
according to the giant-impact hypothesis,
collided with the
early Earth...
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gravitationally bound and can
mimic protoplanets. In the case of
GoHam b it is not
clear if it is a
protoplanet or just a disk fragment. JWST NIRCam...
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dynamical friction between the
protoplanet and the
protoplanetary disk
causes energy to be
transferred from the
protoplanet to the disk. This
results in...
- AU, and
again from 13 AU out to a few
hundred AU, with
evidence for a
protoplanet forming at a
distance of
around 47 AU.
Estimated to be less than 10 million...
- Telescope, as well as a 3rd
unconfirmed one. PDS 70b was the
first confirmed protoplanet to be
directly imaged. The "PDS" in this star's name
stands for Pico...
- the m**** of the
asteroid belt.
Vesta is the only
known remaining rocky protoplanet of the kind that
formed the
terrestrial planets.
Numerous fragments of...
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often called a
primordial or proto-atmosphere, is an
atmosphere of a
protoplanet that
forms by
accretion of
gaseous matter from the
protoplanetary disk...