I'm in the middle of redrafting Wikipedia's article on the Solar System and, while I am fairly confident having completely re-edited the "structure" section (please feel free to point out any errors), the "Origin and Evolution" section is way too short, and needs some extra details. Could you point me in the direction of a decent and fairly concise article on solar system formation that deals with such things as accretion, migration and ejection?

Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system

Outside of you question: Some of the astronomical symbols aren't showing up for me. I get the "ain't got a clue what this is suppose to be" plain box. Sun, Mercery, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, the first one for Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Ok.. most aren't showing up for me.

Yep. Same for me, though I've seen them on other computers. Why this should be the case I don't know. Perhaps you need some kind of patch to read them. Oh well.

Added to my watch list, I'll try to help out this week.

The symbols all work for me in Firefox, but when I load IE, I get the same results as Captain Kidd.

Weird, I've got same problem. Perhaps IE doesn't have proper Unicode support (surprise). Opera has no problems showing them.

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Yeah now that I'm home and on Firefox, no problem.

Fix this:

One particular scattered disk object, 2003 UB313, was originally found 2 years ago

Instead of saying "2 years ago", provide a specific date so that the reference doesn't require updating.

Everything loads correctly here

One suggestion, the Relative Size of SS Objects (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...1000_km%29.jpg) really hurts, so bright! Can you add a black background and perhaps dime the sun yellowness a bit? =)

Otherwise it's good and I enjoyed it =)

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Thanks Joff! Nice to see a fellow Wikipedian in the club!

Baric, too true. I can safely say that I didn't write that bit. It's been changed and some other details added.

mantiss, I wish I could, but my knowledge of photoshopping, to say nothing of importing foreign images into Wikipedia, is frankly nonexistent. It's taken me months just to get the hang of the proper symbols. But thanks for the vote of confidence!

Uploading images to Wikipedia is actually very simple. See the help page.

-- yet another Wikiholic

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maybe it was fixed already, but all the images load for me. I use the latest version of IE.

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