Chaotic planet formation

Renu Malhotra ()
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Renu Malhotra: the Lunar and Planetary Institute

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6762, 599-600

Abstract: Our understanding of planet formation is surprisingly incomplete, so new ideas are always welcome. Computer simulations suggest that the giant planets formed together in a narrow region of our Solar System, and ended up in their present orbits after chaotic interactions. Another computer simulation proposes that the birth of one giant planet in the disk around a young star could trigger the formation of others.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/45123

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