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  • What Did The Solar System Look Like Before All The Planets Migrated?

    01/28/2021 12:27:22 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 32 replies
    Universe Today ^ | January 27, 2021 by | Andy Tomaswick
    Early planetary migration in the solar system has been long established, and there are myriad theories that have been put forward to explain where the planets were coming from. Theories such as the Grand Tack Hypothesis an the Nice Model show how important that migration is to the current state of our solar system. Now, a team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has come up with a novel way of trying to understand planetary migration patterns: by looking at meteorite compositions. The researchers, led by postdoc Jan Render, had three key realizations. First, that almost all the meteorites that...