Origin of water in the inner Solar System: Planetesimals scattered inward during Jupiter and Saturn’s rapid gas accretion

•The inner Solar System’s water – the C-type asteroids and Earth’s water – are simple byproducts of giant planet growth.•The giant planets’ growth scatters nearby planetesimals and injects a significant fraction into the inner Solar System.•Scattered planetesimals are captured into the outer main be...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) N.Y. 1962), 2017-11, Vol.297, p.134-148
Hauptverfasser:	Raymond, Sean N., Izidoro, Andre
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Origins of Solar System Planetary formation Sciences of the Universe
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