Models of Saturn's interior: Evidence for phase separation

Morris Podolak

doi:10.1016/0019-1035(78)90154-9

Models of Saturn's interior: Evidence for phase separation

Morris Podolak^*

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School of the Environment and Earth Sciences

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Models of Saturn's interior have been constructed based on an accumulation picture of planet formation. It was found that central pressures were ∼90 Mb, and central temperatures ∼10^4°K. In sharp contrast to Jupiter, which requires large amounts of heavy material in the envelope to match the observed gravitational quadrupole moment, Saturn requires an almost solar envelope. Indeed, the ratio of enhanced material in the envelope to material in the core is less than ∼0.1, while the corresponding value for Jupiter is ∼2.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	342-348
Number of pages	7
Journal	Icarus
Volume	33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(78)90154-9
State	Published - Feb 1978

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