Early thermal conditions and internal constitutions of the icy satellites

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Oct 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985mnras.216..735c&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 216, Oct. 1, 1985, p. 735-741.

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Chemical Composition, Ice, Icy Satellites, Natural Satellites, Planetary Evolution, Satellite Atmospheres, Surface Temperature, Carbon Dioxide, Gravitational Collapse, Jupiter Satellites, Planetary Atmospheres, Satellite Surfaces, Saturn Satellites, Silicates, Planets, Satellites, Icy Bodies, Thermal Effects, Interior, Composition, Water Ice, Silicate, Gravity Effects, Formation, Energy, Radiation, Flux, Temperature, Fluids, Jupiter, Saturn, Giant Planets, Carbon Dioxide

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The satellites of the major planets appear to be composed primarily of frozen water-ice with a silicate addition. If the formation of the major planets by gravitational contraction is supposed to have been virtually completed in rather less than 107yr, the resulting gravitational energy release would have provided a substantial radiation energy flux from the planets over this period of time.The temperatures at the orbital distances of the accompanying satellites would in consequence have been far in excess of those due to solar radiation alone. Water would have been fluid and could have formed ocean-atmosphere configurations. The consequences of this assumption are considered within the general context of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn and of the terrestrial planets. It is suggested that the composition of the satellites is likely to involve frozen CO2 and other constituents as well as water-ice.

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