Announcement from Planetary Science Research Discoveries [PSRD]

New Issue:

Hit-and-Run as Planets Formed --- Collisions between large protoplanets as the planets formed may have ripped some to them to shreds, producing molten asteroid-sized bodies, driving off water and other volatiles, and scrambling partially molten protoplanets.

Full story with pdf link and movies at:

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Nov06/hit-and-run.html

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Jeff Taylor and Linda Martel
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology,
University of Hawaii
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