• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/782/1/31
Corpus ID: 118419463

TERRESTRIAL PLANET FORMATION IN A PROTOPLANETARY DISK WITH A LOCAL MASS DEPLETION: A SUCCESSFUL SCENARIO FOR THE FORMATION OF MARS

@article{Izidoro2013TERRESTRIALPF,
  title={TERRESTRIAL PLANET FORMATION IN A PROTOPLANETARY DISK WITH A LOCAL MASS DEPLETION: A SUCCESSFUL SCENARIO FOR THE FORMATION OF MARS},
  author={A. Izidoro and N. Haghighipour and O. Winter and M. Tsuchida},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2013},
  volume={782},
  pages={31}
}

A. Izidoro, N. Haghighipour, +1 author M. Tsuchida

Published 2013

Physics, Geology

The Astrophysical Journal

Models of terrestrial planet formation for our solar system have been successful in producing planets with masses and orbits similar to those of Venus and Earth. However, these models have generally failed to produce Mars-sized objects around 1.5 AU. The body that is usually formed around Mars' semimajor axis is, in general, much more massive than Mars. Only when Jupiter and Saturn are assumed to have initially very eccentric orbits (e ~ 0.1), which seems fairly unlikely for the solar system… CONTINUE READING

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