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Collision probabilities of migrating small bodies and dust particles with planets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2010

Sergei I. Ipatov*
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA email: [email protected] Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract

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Probabilities of collisions of migrating small bodies and dust particles produced by these bodies with planets were studied. Various Jupiter-family comets, Halley-type comets, long-period comets, trans-Neptunian objects, and asteroids were considered. The total probability of collisions of any considered body or particle with all planets did not exceed 0.2. The amount of water delivered from outside of Jupiter's orbit to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets could exceed the amount of water in Earth's oceans. The ratio of the mass of water delivered to a planet by Jupiter-family comets or Halley-type comets to the mass of the planet can be greater for Mars, Venus, and Mercury, than that for Earth.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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