Impact vaporization of planetesimal cores in the late stages of planet Formation

1,2Richard G. Kraus, 3Seth Root, 4Raymond W. Lemke, 1,5Sarah T. Stewart, 1Stein B. Jacobsen, 4Thomas R. Mattsson

1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
2Shock Physics Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PO Box 808, L-487, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
3Dynamic Material Properties Group, Sandia National Laboratory, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1195, USA
4High Energy Density Physics Theory, Sandia National Laboratory, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1189, USA
5Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA

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Kraus RG, Root S, Lemke RW, Stewart ST, Jacobsen SB, Mattsson TR (2015) Impact vaporization of planetesimal cores in the late stages of planet Formation. Nature Geoscience 8, 269–272
Link to Article [doi:10.1038/ngeo2369]

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