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Chemistry in the Outer Solar System
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
The discovery by the Galileo Probe Mass Spectrometer that argon is enriched to the same extent as carbon and sulfur on Jupiter requires a revision of models for the formation of this giant planet. Evidently the excess heavy elements were carried to Jupiter in icy planetesimals that formed at temperatures ≤ 30 K. This result indicates that there is no original significance in the present position of Jupiter's orbit.
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- Part 9. Outer Solar Nebula and Planetary Atmospheres
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