Could Giant Impacts Cripple Core Dynamos of Small Terrestrial Planets?

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Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011lpi....42.1532a&link_type=abstract

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.1532

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The impacts that have created the largest basins Utopia, Caloris, and
Aitken on Mars, Mercury, and the Moon, respectively, could have
thermally stratified their cores, suppressed their core convection, and
crippled their thermally driven core dynamos for ~17, 4 , and 5 Ma.

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