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Solar system acquired current configuration not long after its formation
- DiabloD3 7y agoThis is a sign of good things to come, in my opinion. I am not an old man by far, but I remember when even considering attacking the paradigm of solar system evolution (a long period of an accretion disk slowly coalescing into planets and other bodies) an act of heresy, even when their evidence didn't quite make sense (semi-ironically, for the reason this paper is about).
- credit_guy 7y agoThe whole article is based on the pretty strong and implausible implicit assumption that the Solar system did not interact with any other objects in our galaxy. I would take the conclusions with a grain of salt.