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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I think they're missing something fundamental:

the outer rocky-planet could well have formed closer, but been lobbed out, by gravitational-interaction.

There's NO reason to believe that every body in a current solar-relative-position "always" was there.

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