Synestia

Quick meaning: Synestia is a noun meaning (astrophysics) A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects.

Meaning

(astrophysics) A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects.

Example Sentences

For a brief time during its infancy, Earth was a hot, doughnut-shaped blob called a synestia. […] A synestia has an exterior region marked by clouds of molten rock and dust, all at a scorching 2000°C or hotter.

The investigation also examined the geochemical consequences of lunar formation resulting from the high-energy collision of proto-planets that created a huge, vaporized, doughnut-shaped object called a synestia.

For any rotating planetary body, there is a thermal limit beyond which the rotational velocity at the equator intersects the Keplerian orbital velocity. Beyond this corotation limit (CoRoL), a hot planetary body forms a structure, which we name a synestia, with a corotating inner region connected to a disk-like outer region.

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