Formation of Planetesimals in the Outer Solar System

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Main Authors: Johansen, Anders, Bannister, Michele T., Dones, Luke, Jacobson, Seth, Singer, Kelsi, Volk, Kathryn, Womack, Maria
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Published: 2025
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author Johansen, Anders
Bannister, Michele T.
Dones, Luke
Jacobson, Seth
Singer, Kelsi
Volk, Kathryn
Womack, Maria
author_facet Johansen, Anders
Bannister, Michele T.
Dones, Luke
Jacobson, Seth
Singer, Kelsi
Volk, Kathryn
Womack, Maria
contents The Solar System hosts the most studied and best understood major and minor planetary bodies - and the only extraterrestrial bodies to have been visited by spacecraft. The Solar System therefore provides important constraints on both the initial stages of planetary growth, communicated to us by its surviving planetesimal populations, and for the final result of the planet formation process represented by the architecture of the system and properties of the individual planets. We review here models of planetesimal formation in the outer Solar System as well as the wealth of recent observational constraints that has been used to formulate and refine modern planetesimal formation theory.
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spellingShingle Formation of Planetesimals in the Outer Solar System
Johansen, Anders
Bannister, Michele T.
Dones, Luke
Jacobson, Seth
Singer, Kelsi
Volk, Kathryn
Womack, Maria
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
The Solar System hosts the most studied and best understood major and minor planetary bodies - and the only extraterrestrial bodies to have been visited by spacecraft. The Solar System therefore provides important constraints on both the initial stages of planetary growth, communicated to us by its surviving planetesimal populations, and for the final result of the planet formation process represented by the architecture of the system and properties of the individual planets. We review here models of planetesimal formation in the outer Solar System as well as the wealth of recent observational constraints that has been used to formulate and refine modern planetesimal formation theory.
title Formation of Planetesimals in the Outer Solar System
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00369