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Mike Brown's Planets, season 4: sabbatical
ngunn
post Oct 29 2010, 11:59 AM
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Now on sabbatical, Mike Brown has recently reactivated his mainly Transneptunian blog. Here is a tasty two-parter on Sedna for starters: http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/2010/10/t...ere-part-2.html


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post Oct 29 2010, 02:50 PM
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I like Brown's writing style.


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If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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post Nov 1 2010, 01:20 PM
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Excellent blog and mind stimulating rolleyes.gif
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post Nov 7 2010, 07:25 PM
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And now, we interrupt your regularly scheduled program, to announce that Eris ain't so big after all.
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post Nov 12 2010, 04:54 PM
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The consequences of which discovery could be far reaching indeed: http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/2010/11/d...-are-crazy.html
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post Nov 29 2010, 11:20 PM
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After some plutonic intrusions, the next instalment of the Sedna story: http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/2010/11/t...ere-part-3.html
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post Aug 15 2011, 03:47 AM
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Mike's back. This time he's talking about Snow White.

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post Nov 8 2013, 07:56 PM
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After another long lull, obsessive-compulsive rechecking of Mike's blog site is rewarded:
http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/2013/11/s...s-in-space.html
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post Nov 8 2013, 10:06 PM
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The essence of that article and the linked paper is that you can't make a large rocky body by assembling many small icy ones.

Here's a go at that problem. Start with a population of small particles, mostly silicate (rockdust), some ice. Suppose that rock-rock collisions are very bad at resulting in coalescence whereas ice-ice and ice-rock collisions do so more easily due to the absorption of energy by plastic deformation and partial melting. The rock particles would never find a permanent home until they ran into an already formed icy object. As the object grows it becomes better and better at trapping the ubiquitous rockdust.
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post Nov 8 2013, 10:38 PM
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QUOTE (ngunn @ Nov 8 2013, 02:06 PM) *
Suppose that rock-rock collisions are very bad at resulting in coalescence whereas ice-ice and ice-rock collisions do so more easily due to the absorption of energy by plastic deformation and partial melting.


Is there anything in the literature to suggest those suppositions are true.
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post Nov 8 2013, 11:15 PM
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Probably not, but does there have to be? Maybe there is but I don't know about it. It seems to me self-evident that the ice/water phase change would facilitate coalescence.
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post Nov 9 2013, 12:00 AM
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QUOTE (ngunn @ Nov 8 2013, 03:15 PM) *
It seems to me self-evident that the ice/water phase change would facilitate coalescence.


Many many things in deep space are the inverse of self-evident.

And yes - there does have to be something...some sort of evidence that your theory holds water. Experimentation, simulation etc to lend it validity.
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post Nov 9 2013, 09:18 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Nov 9 2013, 12:00 AM) *
Many many things in deep space are the inverse of self-evident.

Experimentation, simulation etc


1/ Very true!

2/ OK here's my winter project, following up on Mike Brown's entertaining terrestrial snowball anecdotes. I will try to make two snowballs collide and coalesce in mid-air. I expect it will require many attempts and I will need some help from the family.

If anyone would like to volunteer for the control group your task is to make it happen with two stones.
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post Nov 9 2013, 03:08 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Nov 8 2013, 06:38 PM) *
Is there anything in the literature to suggest those suppositions are true.


I'm sure ngunn's suggestion is on Mike Brown's list of possibilities, but no, there probably isn't any solid info to support it at the moment. As I understand it, we know how to form "pebbles" up to around 1 cm (from lab experiments and some theory), and then how to form larger bodies once you've gotten up to 1 km planetesimals (from bulk material properties), but in between is full of question marks. I can't remember the proper buzzwords for a good ADS search but one recent example paper is "Growth and fragmentation of centimetre-sized dust aggregates: the dependence on aggregate size and porosity," Farzana Meru, et al., MNRAS 435, 2371 (2013).
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post Nov 10 2013, 07:42 PM
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I suspect the solution to the problem will turn out to be surprisingly simple. ph34r.gif
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