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Volatile Inventory and Early Evolution of the Planetary Atmospheres

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Collisional Processes in the Solar System

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Formation of atmospheres of the inner planets involved the concurrent processes of mantle degassing and collisions that culminated during the heavy bombardment. Volatile-rich icy planetesimals impacting on the planets as a late veneer strongly contributed to the volatile inventory. Icy remnants of the outer planet accretion significantly complemented the accumulation of the lithophile and atmophile elements forced out onto the surface of the inner planets from silicate basaltic magma enriched in volatiles. Orbital dynamics of small bodies, including near-Earth asteroids, comets, and bodies from the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt evolving to become inner planet crossers, is addressed to examine different plausible amounts of volatile accretion. The relative importance of comets and chondrites in the delivery of volatiles is constrained by the observed fractionation pattern of noble gas abundances in the atmospheres of inner planets. The following development of the early atmospheres depended on the amount of volatiles expelled from the interiors and deposited by impactors, while the position of the planet relative to the Sun and its mass affected its climatic evolution.

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Marov, M.Y., Ipatov, S.I. (2001). Volatile Inventory and Early Evolution of the Planetary Atmospheres. In: Marov, M.Y., Rickman, H. (eds) Collisional Processes in the Solar System. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 261. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0712-2_14

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