Mass Arrest: Jupiter's Early Migration Could Explain Mars's Small Size

Monday, June 6, 2011 - 14:30 in Astronomy & Space

The planets of our solar system follow nice, predictable orbits, but it was not always so. In the chaotic early days of the solar system , Jupiter and its fellow giant planets seem to have migrated from their birthplaces into the stable orbits that we observe today. [More]

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