Sentences with phrase «later accreted»

Colliding at speeds up to 22,000 miles per hour (36,000 kilometers per hour), such a collision may have stripped most of the rocky mantle from the protoplanet that became Mercury with its iron - rich core, while a Mars - size protoplanet struck the early Earth off - center and created a spray of mostly mantle material that later accreted to form the Moon.

Some of the material that flowed toward the black hole later accreted to create stars.

Not exact matches

The latest research shows that the relatively small OTS44 has a disk containing more than 10 times the mass of Earth, and that it is actively accreting material.

«Consequently, our data indicate that the main fraction of Earth's water was accreted before the giant impact and not later, as often proposed.»

Theoretical modelling indicate that a hot steam planet could form if it formed in a colder orbit farther from GJ 1214, where lower temperatures would have created an ice - rock composition similar to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and the planet should have formed too late to accrete a large hydrogen - helium gas envelope.