The Primordial Excitation and Clearing of the Asteroid Belt

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Photometry, Solar Nebula, Solar System Formation +2

The Long-Term Dynamical Behavior of Short-Period Comets

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Asteroid, Meteorite Impact, Meteoritics +1

Source regions and timescales for the delivery of water to the Earth

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Engineering, Planetary Body, Water Resources +15

Making the Terrestrial Planets: N-Body Integrations of Planetary Embryos in Three Dimensions

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Planetary Embryos, Planetary Body, Terrestrial Planet +4

Timescales for planetary accretion and the structure of the protoplanetary disk

Jack J. Lissauer · Icarus · 1987 · 456 citations

Solar System Formation, Planetary Accretion, Space Weather +2