Forming Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in few million years by core accretion

Icarus

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 752-755

  Benvenuto, Omar G ^a,b   Fortier, Andrea ^a,b   Brunini, Adrián ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNLP ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Accretion; Planetary formation; Planetesimals

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350402373     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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