Early Solar System instability triggered by dispersal of the gaseous disk - Nature.com


4/27/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago

Dynamical simulations of the early Solar System show that the giant planets’ instability was triggered by the dispersal of the Sun’s gaseous disk, constrained by astronomical observations to be a few to ten million years after the birth of the Solar System.

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