How Pebbles Form Planets

The article brings to mind a 1983 SF short story, "Rogueworld" (Charles Sheffield, published in *Fantasy & Science Fiction) <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?49095+2>), in which a rogue planet enters the Solar System and rapidly evolves from an apparently dead static body to one of immense turmoil due to accumulated stresses, both physical and electromagnetic.

The idea that static electricity could similarly serve as an initiating factor in the formation of smaller macroscopic bodies (dust -> pebbles -> boulders -> asteroids -> planets) is of the "why didn't I think of that before" plausibility. Transition points between static-electric effects, chemical bonding, and gravitational cohesion would be interesting to model.

Some further reading on the topic:

"How do stars and planets form and evolve?"

<https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/big-questions/how-do-stars-and-p...>

"How Do Planets Form?"

<https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/how-do-planets-form/>