On a ring origin of the equatorial ridge of Iapetus |
On a ring origin of the equatorial ridge of Iapetus |
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Aug 29 2006, 06:18 PM
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Wing Ip just had an interesting Iapetus-related paper published in GRL.
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Aug 31 2006, 01:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
One other point - the 'catastrophic atmosphere' would be very dusty and therefore opaque (even if quite tenuous) thus greatly reducing radiative heat loss, so almost all the kinetic energy released by the aerobraking of the infalling material would be trapped as heat in the upper atmosphere.
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