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Did Jupiter once have a different orbit?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How the Universe Got to Be Wrong the Way It Is

We're trying to understand how our solar system got to be weird the way it is. Why don't we have a bunch of other planets close to the star? Why is mars so small? Why is the asteroid belt the way it is, this weird mix of rocky and icy objects? So we've taken clues from these other solar systems that have big planets really close to their star. One idea initially was like, maybe jupiter was formed close to the sun and then like, drifted out,. But you just told us that it needed to be out there where there's ice in order to form. Could it have possibly formed near the earth, you soy people spent a while trying to cook

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