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Jupiter Smashed The Super-Earth Version Of Our Solar System
Our Solar System may have once been made up of a number of super-Earths – until Jupiter came barrelling through the planetary system like a wrecking ball. A new study by Caltech planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin and UC Santa Cruz professor of astronomy and astrophysics Gregory Laughlin suggests that the inner system used to contain a number of planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
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