MANDELL , A. M.

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A model of early inner Solar System evolution whereby the gas-driven migration of Jupiter and Saturn truncates the disk of planetesimals and creates a depleted and dynamically excited asteroid belt populated from two parent populations.

The asteroid belt is found today in a dramatically different state than that immediately following its formation. It is estimated that it has been depleted in total mass by a factor of at least 1000 since its formation, and that the asteroids' orbits evolved from having near-zero eccentricity and inclination to the complex distributions we find...

Numerical simulations of planetary accretion have succeeded in matching most of the physical and orbital properties of the terrestrial planets with one glaring exception: they categorically form Mars analogs that are roughly an order of magnitude too massive (Raymond et al. 2009). The initial conditions that best reproduce the mass of Mars...

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A new terrestrial planet formation model (Walsh et al., this meeting) explores the effects of a two-stage, inward-then-outward migration of Jupiter and Saturn, as found in numerous hydrodynamical simulations of giant planet formation (Masset & Snellgrove 2001, Morbidelli & Crida 2007, Pierens & Nelson 2008). Walsh et al. show that the inward...