Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:

The Compositional Diversity of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets: I. In-Situ Simulations.
J. C. Bond, D. P. O'Brien and D. S. Lauretta
The Astrophysical Journal, in press
Dynamical Models of Terrestrial Planet Formation
J. I. Lunine, D. P. O'Brien, S. N. Raymond, A. Morbidelli, T. Quinn and A. L. Graps
Advanced Science Letters, in press
Tungsten Isotopic Evolution During Late-Stage Accretion: Constraints on Earth-Moon equilibration
F. Nimmo, D. P. O'Brien and T. Kleine
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 292, Issue 3-4, p. 363-370 (2010)
Making the Earth: Combining Dynamics and Chemistry in the Solar System
J. C. Bond, D. S. Lauretta and D. P. O'Brien
Icarus, Volume 205, Issue 2, p. 321-337 (2010)
Accretion of Planetesimals and the Formation of Rocky Planets
J. Chambers, D. P. O'Brien and A. M. Davis
Protoplanetary Dust: The Astrochemical and Cosmochemical Perspectives, D. Apai and D. S. Lauretta, eds.
Cambridge University Press (2010)
The Yarkovsky Effect is not Responsible for Small Crater Depletion on Eros and Itokawa
D. P. O'Brien
Icarus, Volume 203, Issue 1, pp. 112-118 (2009)
Building the Terrestrial Planets: Constrained Accretion in the Inner Solar System
S. N. Raymond, D. P. O'Brien, A. Morbidelli and N. A. Kaib
Icarus, Volume 203, Issue 2, pp. 644-662 (2009).
Itokawa's Cratering Record as Observed by Hayabusa: Implications for its Age and Collisional History
P. Michel, D. P. O'Brien, S. Abe and N. Hirata
Icarus, Volume 200, Issue 2, pp. 503-513 (2009)
Formation and Collisional Evolution of Kuiper Belt Objects
S. J. Kenyon, B. C. Bromley, D. P. O'Brien and D. R. Davis
The Solar System Beyond Neptune, A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D. Cruikshank and A. Morbidelli, eds.
University of Arizona Press (2008)
The Primordial Excitation and Clearing of the Asteroid Belt---Revisited
D. P. O'Brien, A. Morbidelli and W. F. Bottke
Icarus, Volume 191, Issue 2, pp. 434-452 (2007)
Terrestrial Planet Formation with Strong Dynamical Friction
D. P. O'Brien, A. Morbidelli and H. F. Levison
Icarus, Volume 184, Issue 1, pp. 39-58 (2006)
Craters on Asteroids: Reconciling Diverse Impact Records with a Common Impacting Population
D. P. O'Brien, R. Greenberg and J. E. Richardson
Icarus, Volume 183, Issue 1, pp. 79-92 (2006)
Iron Meteorites as Remnants of Planetesimals Formed in the Terrestrial Planet Region
W. F. Bottke, D. Nesvorny, R. E. Grimm, A. Morbidelli and D. P. O'Brien
Nature, Volume 439, Issue 7078, pp. 821-824 (2006)
The Potential for Prebiotic Chemistry in the Possible Cryovolcanic Dome Ganesa Macula on Titan
C. D. Neish, R. D. Lorenz, D. P. O'Brien, and the Cassini RADAR Team
International Journal of Astrobiology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 57-65 (2006)
The Collisional and Dynamical Evolution of the Main-Belt and NEA Size Distributions
D. P. O'Brien and R. Greenberg
Icarus, Volume 178, Issue 1, pp. 179-212 (2005)
Numerical Calculations of the Longevity of Impact Oases on Titan
D. P. O'Brien, R. Lorenz, and J. I. Lunine
Icarus, Volume 173, Issue 1, pp. 243-253 (2005)
Steady-state Size Distributions for Collisional Populations: Analytical Solution with Size-Dependent Strength
D. P. O'Brien and R. Greenberg
Icarus, Volume 164, Issue 2, pp. 334-345 (2003)
Numerical Modeling of Impact Heating and Cooling of the Vredefort Impact Structure
E. P. Turtle, E. Pierazzo, and D. P. O'Brien
Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38, Nr. 2, pp. 293-303 (2003)
Stability of Satellites Around Close-in Extrasolar Giant Planets
J. W. Barnes and D. P. O'Brien
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 575, Issue 2, pp. 1087-1093 (2002)
A Melt-through Model for Chaos Formation on Europa
D. P. O'Brien, P. Geissler, and R. Greenberg
Icarus, Volume 156, Issue 1, pp. 152-161 (2002)


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