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Scientists Think An Ancient Interloper Once Disrupted Our Entire Solar System

Scientists Think An Ancient Interloper Once Disrupted Our Entire Solar System

Jan Otte

You might remember learning about our solar system in school. Those neat diagrams showed planets moving in perfect circular orbits, all lined up like beads on a flat disc. Turns out, reality is messier. Our planetary neighborhood doesn’t follow those textbook rules nearly as well as we thought. Something knocked things off course a long ...