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Planet migration


According to the new model, Saturn scattered Neptune outwards beyond Uranus into the Kuiper belt during the epoch of planet migration. The ellipses indicate the orbits of the four giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, viewed obliquely as they travel about the Sun, with Pluto lurking out in the Kuiper belt (image and text: Nature 435 432).

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