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We Just Got The First Evidence of Two Planets Sharing The Same Orbit (www.sciencealert.com)
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The Solar System is a fairly tidy place.

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[–] stevecrox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's at the L5 point and currently forming, I don't know if it's possible but I really hope they can guess at the likely end mass of each proto planet in the system.

Will this planet exceed the mass ratio for stability at L5? What happens to the the orbits when the two gas giants form?

There are so many cool questions