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Does a more massive main proto-body result in more massive satellites? More satellites?
Suppose that we have a forming protostar and an accompanying protoplanetary disk.
Does the mass of the protostar have any direct relation to the masses of resulting planets or amount of resulting ...
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How common is it for large objects (few kilometers wide) in a young protoplanetary disk or debris disk to collide with one another?
If enough time has passed for gravitational forces to allow the formation of planetesimals(proto-planets) in orbit around the proto-star, how likely is it that two of them would collide with one ...
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