Planet Absorption by a Gas Giant
Abstract
There is mounting evidence of many extra-solar planetary systems in our galaxy, consisting typically of a Sun-like star and Jupiter-like planets on highly elliptic orbits. These systems are characterised by a dearth of smaller Earth-like planets. The present paper describes the swallowing-up of a small rock dwarf by a large gas giant, and shows that this behaviour is as predicted by the collinearity principle.
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2019-09-18
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Rimrott, F. P. J. and Salustri, F. A. (2019) “Planet Absorption by a Gas Giant”, Technische Mechanik - European Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 21(4), pp. 261–265. Available at: https://journals.ub.ovgu.de/index.php/techmech/article/view/1063 (Accessed: 9 November 2024).
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