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Nature 396, 513-514 (10 December 1998) | doi:10.1038/24983

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Twenty-eight ways to build a solar system

Brett Gladman1

Ever since their discovery, extrasolar planets have challenged standard ideas about planet formation. Faced with increasing numbers of 'unusual' planetary systems, astronomers are now developing models that attempt to explain these giant planets around Sun-like stars.

  1. Brett Gladman is at the Observatoire de la Côte dAzur, Département Cassini, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 04, France.
    e-mail: Email: gladman@obs-nice.fr