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Lunar Accretion from an Impact-Generated Disk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Eiichiro Kokubo  and
Shigeru Ida
Eiichiro Kokubo
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
Shigeru Ida
Affiliation:
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

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We investigate the evolution of a circumterrestrial disk of debris generated by a giant impact on the Earth and the dynamical characteristics of the moon accreted from the disk by using N-body simulation. We find that in most cases the disk evolution results in the formation of a single large moon on a nearly circular orbit close to the equatorial plane of the initial disk just outside the Roche limit. The efficiency of incorporation of disk material into a moon is 10-55%, which increases with the initial specific angular momentum of the disk. These results hardly depend on the initial condition of the disk as long as the disk mass is a few times the present lunar mass and most disk mass exists inside the Roche limit.

Type
Planetary Formation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 208: Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particle Simulations , 2003 , pp. 37 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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