Solving solar system quandaries is simple: Just flip-flop the position of Uranus and Neptune

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The wandering (eh) of planets may have caused the late heavy bombardment (see this; the site has a nice animation of how the orbits of giant planets may have evolved).

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Planetary migration not only make the formation of Uranus and Neptune possible, but it also explains why the Kuiper belt is not nearly as massive as it should. Also the various resonances in Kuiper belt and the main asteroid belt can be explained by moving planets, as well as Trojan asteroids. Since closely-orbiting extrasolar planets must have migrated, this doesn't sound at all far-fetched. When Saturn's orbit became unstable, our Solar System must have looked very strange with many eccentric orbits.

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Hi, Thanks for the link. Fascinating.
Best regards, Dan

I wish they'd switch back. Uranus resolves to a disk in my scope but Neptune is a much prettier shade of blue. Unfortunately it's just a dot or at least a very small disk.

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