Supercomputer reveals atmospheric impact of gigantic planetary collisions – Phys.org

The giant impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres, according to new research.
Research led by Durham University and involving the University of Glasgow, both UK, has developed a way of revealing the scale of atmosphere loss during planetary collisions based on 3-D supercomputer simulations.
The simulations show how Earth-like planets with thin atmospheres might have evolved in an early solar system dependin…

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