Angular momenta of collided rarefied preplanetesimals
arXiv:1412.8445 · doi:10.1017/S1743921313013008
Abstract
The angular momenta of rarefied preplanetesimals needed for formation of small-body binaries can be obtained at collisions of preplanetesimals. Trans-Neptunian objects, including trans-Neptunian binaries, could be formed from contracting rarefied preplanetesimals.
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