The aim of this study is to investigate the interaction of Earth-mass planets with a planetesimal disk.
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Two-source Terrestrial Planet Formation With A Sweeping Secular Resonance
The models that most successfully reproduce the orbital architecture of the Solar System terrestrial planets start from a narrow annulus of material that grows into embryos and then planets.