Perturbations from the giant planets cannot do the job either, even if they change their orbits abruptly later in the Solar System's evolution, as modern models predict (see ref. 5, for example).

As for the ultimate stability of planetary orbits within our own inner solar system? In a 2009 paper in the journal Nature, Laskar and co-author Mickael Gastineau ran numerical models of some 2500 ...

In To Scale: The Solar System, the filmmakers seek to make a model of the solar system that gets the orbits and the size of the planets perfectly to scale. With Earth the size of a marble ...

their great masses made them very effective at tossing this planetesimal debris around the Solar System, an interaction that also caused the planets' orbits to shift in response. In the model of ...

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Wylie Overstreet says, "is to build one." So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets' orbits and then filming a ...

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar system, the odds are ... place), the crew built a scale model seven miles in diameter, drawing out the orbits and filming models of the planets ...

Computer simulations have revealed a plausible explanation for a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers: Rather than occupying orbits ... so our models considered developing solar systems with ...

"If you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper ... The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one." So that's what Overstreet, Gorosh and the rest of the group decided ...

The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest ... When combined with a simplified model of the solar system, the gravitational forces of the hypothesised disc can account for the unusual ...

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Astronomers have uncovered a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, 2007 OR10, in the frigid outskirts of our solar system called ... on the formation models," said Csaba Kiss of the ...

All must, then, be regarded as having always been members of the solar system, however much their orbits may have changed ... of the viscosity with the time. Scientific Papers, vol.