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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Icarus. 2019 Jan 21;323:1–15. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.01.012

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Results of thermal models for planetesimals with radii ranging from 50 km to 1400 km that accreted 0.2 Myr post CAI from chondritic material. The abscissa and ordinate in each panel are the radial position in the body and time elapsed after instantaneous accretion, respectively. Colors represent melt fractions while contours show temperature in degrees K. Only the outer-most few kilometers are shown for illustration. A magma ocean exposed to the surface is viable for the two largest bodies depicted here, but not the two smaller bodies. The approximate durations of the surface magma oceans are shown by vertical arrows.