The Origin of Mercury

By Willy Benz, Augustin Anic, J. Horner, J. Whitby. 2007

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. C. Mordasini
2. Th. Henning
3. Z. Leinhardt
4. Y. Alibert
5. S. Stewart
6. H. Klahr
7. A. Morbidelli
8. C. Georgy

In Atmospheric Science

1. Z. Leinhardt
2. S. Stewart
3. Catherine L. Johnson
4. Brad M. S. Hansen
5. Derek C. Richardson
6. D. Nesvorný

Citations in the corpus

• FORMATION OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS FROM A NARROW ANNULUS (2009, background): “The several large late impacts evident in Figure 6 provide a mechanism for blowing off a Silicate-rich mantle to leave behind an iron-rich core, as has been discussed by several authors (Smith 1979; Wetherill 1986; Cameron et al. 1988; Benz et al. 2007).”
• COLLISIONS BETWEEN GRAVITY-DOMINATED BODIES. II. THE DIVERSITY OF IMPACT OUTCOMES DURING THE END STAGE OF PLANET FORMATION (2011, background): “The large core mass fraction for Mercury could be the result of a single mantle-stripping impact event (Benz et al. 2007).”
• COLLISIONS BETWEEN GRAVITY-DOMINATED BODIES. I. OUTCOME REGIMES AND SCALING LAWS (2011, background): “Note that our analytic calculation of collision outcomes agrees very well with the proposed giant impact scenarios for the formation of the Haumea system (Leinhardt et al. 2010), the formation of Pluto and Charon (Canup 2005), the formation of Earth’s moon (Canup 2004), and the increased density of ”
• Characterization of exoplanets from their formation - II. The planetary mass-radius relationship (2012, background): “Such a situation can result from collisional mantel stripping as might have occurred for Mercury (e.g. Benz et al. 2007).”
• Mercury’s Weather-Beaten Surface: Understanding Mercury in the Context of Lunar and Asteroidal Space Weathering Studies (2014, background): “Cosmochemical models for Mercury’s formation account for its large iron core but vary in the estimates of crustal iron content (Lewis 1973, 1988; Weidenschilling 1978; Cameron 1985; Fegley and Cameron 1987; Wetherill 1988; Benz et al. 1988, 2007; Ebel and Alexander 2011).”