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kilometer size barrier

(barrier to further growth of planetesimals on the order of a km diameter)

The term kilometer size barrier is used for barriers to the growth of planets beyond some general size on the order of a kilometer in diameter. The term has been used for mechanisms that would seem to affect planetary embryos in that size-regime. One such mechanism of interest is that turbulence in the protoplanetary disk might result in too many collisions of sufficient velocity that embryos would lose mass rather than gain it.


(planet formation,barrier)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...763..117D/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...686.1292I/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...687.1432C/abstract

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