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Origin of Phobos and Deimos by the impact of a Vesta-to-Ceres sized body with Mars

It has been proposed that Mars’ moons formed from a disk produced by a large impact with the planet. However, whether such an event could produce tiny Phobos and Deimos remains unclear. Using a hybrid N-body model of moon accumulation that includes a full treatment of moon-moon dynamical interaction...

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Autores principales: Canup, Robin, Salmon, Julien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5906076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29675470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar6887