Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983icar...56..195c&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 56, Nov. 1983, p. 195-201.
Computer Science
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Outgassing, Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Evolution, Terrestrial Planets, Argon Isotopes, Atmospheric Composition, Collision Parameters, Lunar Evolution, Protoplanets
Scientific paper
The monotonic decrease in the atmospheric abundance of per gram of planet in the sequence, Venus, earth, and Mars has been assumed to reflect some conditions in the primitive solar nebula at the time of formation of the planetary atmospheres, having to do either with the composition of the nebula itself or the composition of the trapped gases in small solid bodies in the nebula. Behind such hypotheses lies the assumption that planetary atmospheres steadily gain components. However, not only can gases enter atmospheres; they may also be lost from atmospheres both by adsorption into the planetary interior and by loss into space as a result of collisions with minor and major planetesimals. In this paper a necessarily qualitative discussion is given of the problem of collisions with minor planetesimals, a process called atmospheric cratering or atmospheric erosion, and a discussion is given of atmospheric loss accompanying collision of a planet with a major planetesimal, such as may have produced the earth's moon.
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