Timeline for How to create a chlorine-rich planet in a chlorine-poor planetary system?
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| Jun 1, 2020 at 15:57 | answer | added | Slarty | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 12:53 | comment | added | UVphoton | Also like the question. There seem to be an excess of perchlorates on the Martian surface, which I suppose could be related. It seems your question and the amount of perchlorate could be related to the amount of water on Mars over time. Perhaps that is related to the frost-line and volatility too. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 6:09 | comment | added | JBH | +1 because I like the question. Note that for all we know about the formation of our own planet, in reality we're just scratching the surface of solar system formation. We're obviously limited by not having a lot of other systems to compare ours to - and we do get regularly surprised by new astronomical finds (that planet's doing what?). So I ask... is it necessary for this to happen at the planet formation stage? Or could a talented botanist describe how it could have come to pass via flora? | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 6:00 | comment | added | TheDyingOfLight | Just a guess here, I don't have any evidence backing this up. All materials in the proto planetary disc have what's called a Frostline, where they are pushed by the sun in the early development of the system. Most elements but iron were pushed out of the innermost system, rocky dust remained in the inner system, water was pushed back to 2.7 AU, helping with the formation of Jupiter and so on. If you find out as what molecule chlorine can be found in the proto planetary disc and there is indeed a dominant chlorine carrier, a planet formed at this molecules Frostline should be rich in chlorine. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 3:31 | history | asked | URIZEN | CC BY-SA 4.0 |