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Evaporating planetesimals

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Two studies show that evaporation of molten rock was intrinsic to the formation of Earth and other rocky bodies in the Solar System, suggesting that violent collisions played a key part in the formation process. See Letters p.507 & p.511

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Figure 1: Evaporation of colliding planetesimals.

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