Consider a disc of gas and dust around the protoSun. (a) What would be the relationship between
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Consider a disc of gas and dust around the protoSun.
(a) What would be the relationship between the orbital periods of particles in circular orbits in the inner and outer parts of the disc, if Kepler’s third law were applicable, i.e. are the orbital periods the same, or is one much shorter than the other?
(b) What would tend to happen to the orbital periods in the inner and outer parts of the disc if these were linked by viscous drag, so particles could not orbit entirely independently?
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An Introduction To The Solar System
ISBN: 9781108430845
3rd Edition
Authors: David A. Rothery, Neil McBride, Iain Gilmour
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