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| Mar 7, 2021 at 9:56 | comment | added | James K | The early solar system was complicated by the lingering presence of a protoplanetary disc, and a complex set of resonances that developed and broke see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis It is likely that any system of more than one star and one planet will be chaotic, in the mathematical sense, but chaos doesn't imply ejections. | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 21:03 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | Can we say that stability in such systems evolves? I.e. early in the life of a solar system, the planets that are most likely to be thrown out, are thrown out. And that what remains is the planets that are least likely to be ejected? Or must the chaos develop over the very long term? | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 19:53 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |