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March 24, 2015

Our Solar System May Have Once Harbored Super-Earths
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2015
Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of super-Earths - planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. If so, those planets are long gone - broken up and fallen into the Sun billions of years ago largely due to a great inward-and-then-outward journey that Jupiter made early in the solar system's history. This possible scenario has been suggested by Konstantin Batygin, a Caltech planetary scientist, and Gregory Laugh ... read more

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