Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jul 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984icar...59...74m&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 59, July 1984, p. 74-86. NASA-supported research.
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Planetary Evolution, Primitive Earth Atmosphere, Protoplanets, Solar Corona, Abundance, Eccentricity, Opacity, Sediment Transport, Surface Temperature
Scientific paper
For models of planetary accumulation in the presence of solar nebular gas, the initial surface temperature of the earth is controlled by the grain opacity of the atmosphere. The surface temperature in turn controls the quantity of neon dissolved and trapped within the interior of the earth. To compare accumulation theory with observation, calculations have been made of the grain opacity expected to be associated with accumulation in a gaseous nebula. There are two parameters that are in principle determined by the theory, but actually are at present uncertain: the mean eccentricity(e) of the planetesimal swarm, and the fraction (xi) of the accretional energy that is expended in the release of grains into the atmosphere by ablation of the incoming planetesimal. It is found that if e is low (0.001), rather low values of xi (0.00001) are required to match the observed neon data. In contrast higher values of xi (0.1) are required for the most probable case with e = 0.01. For the high-eccentricity case (e = 0.1), xi must be greater than 0.01. The results show that avoidance of excess trapped neon of solar composition places restrictive, but not necessarily impossible, conditions on the parameters of the accumulation theory.
Mizuno Hideki
Wetherill George W.
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