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How the Solar System didn't form

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Standard planet-formation models have been unable to reconstruct the distributions of the Solar System's small, rocky planets and asteroids in the same simulation. A new analysis suggests that it cannot be done.

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Figure 1: The inner Solar System and outcomes of simulations of its formation.

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  1. Kleomenis Tsiganis is in the Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.,

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