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Planetary science

a hot, rapidly spinning, doughnut-shaped body of vapor and melt that forms after a giant impact when a planet exceeds its corotation limit.

In planetary science, synestia refers to a hot, rapidly spinning, doughnut-shaped body of vapor and melt that forms after a giant impact when a planet exceeds its corotation limit. This meaning comes from Lock (2017) in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.[1]

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References

Lock, S. J., & Stewart, S. T. (2017). The structure of terrestrial bodies: Impact heating, corotation limits, and synestias. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122(5), 950-982. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016je005239

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