terrestrial planet

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Atmospheric loss processes have played a major role in the evolution and habitability of the terrestrialplanet atmospheres in our solar system.
This must have happened early on, whilst the nebular gas was still present and before the completion of terrestrialplanet growth.
If this speculation is correct, any terrestrialplanet could experience a runaway if struck by a large asteroid or comet.
In this sense there is universal convergence of terrestrialplanet formation independent of a given solar system.
While complex life is more vulnerable against environmental stress, it amplifies weathering processes on a terrestrialplanet.
The first one has two massive planets and the second one consists of a terrestrialplanet and a giant planet.
A reduced efficiency of terrestrialplanet formation following giant planet migration.
A larger semimajor axis and/or a significantly eccentric binary orbit, however, can lead to a significantly more dynamically hot terrestrialplanet system.
Damping of terrestrialplanet eccentricities by density-wave interactions with a remnant gas disk.
Making other earths : dynamical simulations of terrestrialplanet formation and water delivery.
On the character and consequences of large impacts in the late state of terrestrialplanet formation.
We have re-examined what is known at present about the potential for a terrestrialplanet forming within, or migrating into, the habitable zone close to the star.
The use of transmission spectroscopy for detecting and investigating the atmosphere of a terrestrialplanet as it transits in front of its parent star is investigated.
Terrestrialplanet formation in binary star systems.
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