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The 22 pages that link to Planetesimal, each with the reason it gives.

• Protoplanetary diskBroader topic: It is a key intermediate between disk grains and planets.

• AsteroidBroader topic: Planetesimals are the early building blocks from which asteroids and planets grew.

• PlanetBroader topic: Planetesimals are the building blocks that collide and grow into planets.

• Solar System formationBroader topic: Planetesimals were intermediate building blocks between dust grains and planets.

• Oort cloudBroader topic: Objects scattered outward during planet formation began as planetesimals.

• Planet formationBroader topic: Planetesimals are the intermediate building blocks between dust and planetary embryos.

• Accretion (astrophysics)Broader topic: Planetesimals are intermediate building blocks in solid-body accretion.

• Pebble accretionBroader topic: Many models start pebble accretion with a planetesimal seed.

• Core accretionBroader topic: Planetesimals provide building material for the growing planetary core.

• Impact eventRelated: Planetesimal collisions helped assemble larger planetary bodies.

• VestaRelated: Vesta is a surviving large remnant of the planetesimal population.

• Nebular hypothesisBroader topic: Planetesimals are intermediate building blocks between disk dust and planets.

• Terrestrial planetBroader topic: Planetesimals were the solid building units from which rocky planets grew.

• Dust coagulationBroader topic: Coagulation is one proposed route from fine dust toward the precursors of planetesimals.

• Planetary accretionBroader topic: Planetesimals are the kilometer-scale bodies whose mergers drive later accretion.

• Comet nucleusNarrower topic: Comet nuclei are thought to descend from icy planetesimals formed in the early Solar System.

• Debris diskNarrower topic: Planetesimals are the parent bodies whose collisions replenish the disk’s observable dust.

• ArrokothNarrower topic: Arrokoth is interpreted as a preserved planetesimal from the Solar System’s formation.

• FomalhautBroader topic: Collisions among unseen planetesimals replenish the dust observed around Fomalhaut.

• ProtoplanetBroader topic: Repeated mergers among planetesimals build larger planetary bodies.

• Formation and evolution of the Solar SystemBroader topic: Planetesimals were intermediate building blocks between dust grains and planets.

• Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinBroader topic: In Chamberlin’s model, planetesimals were the intermediate building blocks of the planets.