51,724 views
0 votes
0 votes
What is the meaning of primordial heat?

User Jozef Spisiak
by
3.1k points

1 Answer

24 votes
24 votes

Answer:

The primordial heat of a planet is the heat caused by the dissipation of heat energy accumulated during its first few million years. Accretion energy is the energy deposited by infalling planetesimals and differentiation energy is the energy deposited by separating planetesimals.

User Hampus
by
3.0k points