Volcanism and tectonics on planets and satellites of the solar system - Dependence on body size and period of revolution around the central body

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Apr 1992

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Astronomicheskii Vestnik (ISSN 0320-930X), vol. 26, no. 2, Mar.-Apr. 1992, p. 66-76. In Russian.

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Natural Satellites, Planetary Environments, Tectonics, Terrestrial Planets, Volcanoes, Heat Flux, Planetary Geology, Planetary Orbits, Radioactive Decay, Solar System Evolution

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Twenty-eight planets and satellites for which sufficiently detailed images are available are classified according to the degree of their late endogenic activity. This activity occurred to different degrees on 16 of the bodies studied and did not occur in a noticeable form on 12 bodies. It is found that the larger the body and the shorter the period of its revolution around the central body, the greater the degree of endogenic activity. It is shown that body radius is a parameter which is proportional to the amount of heat generated by early and late sources and to the degree of the preservation of early heat at late geological epochs. The orbital period is a measure of the efficiency of the tidal heating of satellites. For a number of little-studied bodies of the solar system, a prediction of their late endogenic activity is made. Titan, has the greatest chances that traces of it will be detected; Pluto and Charon have the least.

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