Meanings
protomercury1
- alternativeAlternative form of proto-Mercury
In these runs the protomercury target was represented by 3000 particles
1987, AGW Cameron, W Benz, WL Slattery, “Planetary collision calculations: origin of Mercury”, in Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, adsabs.harvard.edu2 more examples
This leads to the hypothesis that the original protomercury was a body substantially more massive than the present planet and of normal composition
1985, AGW Cameron, “The partial volatilization of Mercury”, in Icarus, https://www.sciencedirect.comEvolution of the collision between protomercury and an impactor of 1/6 its mass hitting head-on at 20 km/s.
1988, W Benz, “Applications of smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to astrophysical problems”, in Computer Physics Communications, Elsevier
protoMercury2
- alternativeAlternative form of proto-Mercury
The major angular momentum was initially in the orbiting of the massive inner planets: protoMercury, protoVenus, and protoEarth.
2012, Robert J. Tuttle, The Fourth Source: Effects of Natural Nuclear Reactors, page 101
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