A Collisional Origin for Ice-rich Iapetus and Titan's Anomalous Eccentricity

arXiv:2609.28948 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/LLNL/spheral

Terminology

• Core — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Provenance — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Center of Mass (CoM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Clustering SPH Debris into N-body Fragments: A Collisional Code for Planet Formation

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