Since some planets in our solar system have higher concentrations of certain elements, iron on Mars, for example, does that suggest our original solar nebula once flattened by a centrifugal force may have been ring-like with bands of certain elements. That would mean that different places within the ring would coalesce to form a planet and have a very different concentration from other places in the disk. So it'd be like, look up, why for what? All right, Chuck, keep him coming.
What is the weirdest planet ever discovered? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discover bizarre exoplanets like Erebus, the impacts of living on a habitable moon, hot Jupiters, and more with astronomy professor David Kipping.
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