These are the Nebular Hypothesis of Laplace, the Planetesimal Hypothesis of Chamberlin and Moulton, and the Capture Theory of See. Darwings theory of Tidal Friction is scarcely a distinct ...

Could Psyche be the core of the planetesimal body that struck Earth and resulted in the formation of the Moon? Colton Brooks ...

To test the idea, the team conducted more than 3,000 simulations modeling what happens when stars of different masses fly through planetesimal disks of different widths, passing at different ...

Using these measurements, and simulations of the physics of dust and planetesimal collisions, planetary scientists and astronomers have established that the dust-to-protoplanet process takes tens of ...

Scientists have also speculated that Psyche is the leftover remnant of a planetesimal, the building blocks to rocky planets like Earth, according to NASA. In other words, studying a rock like ...

"Theoretical models of planetesimal and planet formation predicted that objects like this should be out there. And the very first Kuiper Belt planetesimal that we visit turns out to be one of them ...