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Indulge my wild guess (I'm not a physicist): If the proto solar system's matter distribution was a Gaussian-like distribution, it would make sense that matter
by yonkshi 9y ago
Indulge my wild guess (I'm not a physicist):
If the proto solar system's matter distribution was a Gaussian-like distribution, it would make sense that matter density droped in a logarithmic scale, and thus planets formed droped logarithmically w.r.t radius.
More intuitively.. further away from the sun has less probability for rocks/particles to interact with each other.
- Someone 9y agoIn our solar system, the small planets are closest to the sun. Jupiter, with 72% of all planetary mass, is more than twice as heavy as all other planets, combined. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune take most of the remaining 28% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size#Graphical_overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_b...) (Of course, there also is way more volume that far away)