The effects of tidal forces on the stability and dispersal rates of a protoplanet.
Abstract
The tidal disruption of a protoplanet by the sun is considered using both analytical and numerical means. It is concluded that the disruption process is very rapid and that this implies that most conventional protoplanetary theories for the formation of planets need to be modified; otherwise, complete disruption would have occurred before a refractory core could form.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- August 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/172.2.257
- Bibcode:
- 1975MNRAS.172..257D
- Keywords:
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- Orbital Elements;
- Planetary Evolution;
- Solar System;
- Tides;
- Circular Orbits;
- Condensates;
- Dynamic Stability;
- Elliptical Orbits;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration