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Dry Out Super-Earths via Giant Impacts

Dry Out Super-Earths via Giant Impacts

by Tim Lichtenberg | Oct 5, 2015 | Daily Paper Summaries

A dry planet and one with a thick atmosphere close together seems to be very weird. How about smashing one with a huge impactor?

Triggered fragmentation in self-gravitating disks

Triggered fragmentation in self-gravitating disks

by Tim Lichtenberg | Sep 15, 2015 | Daily Paper Summaries

How to form clumps in the intermediate ranges of massive protoplanetary disks? Could these later be planets?

Giant planets from far out there

Giant planets from far out there

by Tim Lichtenberg | Aug 18, 2015 | Daily Paper Summaries

Planets are ubiquitous in the Milky Way. Therefore, building them must be straightforward, right? Not at all!

Nature’s Starships Vol. II – A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Bloody Cold Beginnings

Nature’s Starships Vol. II – A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Bloody Cold Beginnings

by Tim Lichtenberg | Jul 24, 2015 | Daily Paper Summaries

How and where did the first organic molecules emerge? Sophisticated chemistry models for the synthesis of amino acids within planetesimals can help us to decipher these mysteries.

Nature’s Starships Vol. I – Ride in on Shooting Stars

Nature’s Starships Vol. I – Ride in on Shooting Stars

by Tim Lichtenberg | Jun 26, 2015 | Daily Paper Summaries

Amino acids were possibly brought to Earth by meteorite impacts, which contaminated the young environment with organic compounds. However, where and how did these most basic ingredients of life form in the first place?

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