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Volatile loss following very large impactsLarge impacts on growing planets can be fundamentally different in outcome than small impacts because they can lead to a planet-enveloping cloud of siliate vapor with a radiative cooling time long compared to dynamic time scales. Under these circumstances, there can be preferrential volatile loss by hydrodynamic outflow immediately above the silicate cloud deck. This loss is in ddition to the prompt, nonpreferential loss immediately following the impact event. During this time, evaporative loss (Jeans loss) can be 0.00001 of the planetary mass, provided the impact has substantial angular momentum and a magma disk forms. The loss is preferentially fromt he extremities of the disk and can be easily s100 bar-equivalents of CO2 or H2O. This implies devolatilization of Moon-forming material in an impact origin and may have important implications for the CO2 reservoirs of Venus, Earth, and Mars.
Document ID
19850025549
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Stevenson, D. J.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1985
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Inst. Terrest. Planets: Comp. Planetology
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
85N33862
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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