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Planetesimals on Eccentric Orbits Erode Rapidly
Abstract We investigate the possibility of erosion of planetesimals in a protoplanetary disk. We use theory and direct numerical simulations (lattice Boltzmann method) to calculate the erosion of large—much larger than the mean-free path of gas molecules—bodies of different shapes in flows. We find that erosion follows a universal power …