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If we are to recognize other planetary systems, particularly systems that are just forming, we must understand how our own system formed, and how it evolved. Astronomers have developed models of its origin, but reaching back into the past, trying to reconstruct events that happened so long ago with so few clues is difficult. We don’t have much to work with. Most of the objects around us now, the planets and moons, have changed dramatically since they formed. The model is therefore incomplete in many ways.
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Parker, B. (1994). Searching for the Origin of the Solar System. In: Stairway to the Stars. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6052-8_14
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