Sentences with phrase «such planet migration»
The most catastrophic scenario for such planet migration, dubbed the Nice model (after the French city), has been gaining ground of late.
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Such orbital migration would destroy any smaller, Earth - like planets that had formed, as an inward - moving giant would scatter smaller planets the way a bowling ball would blast through a pile of marbles.
Norman Myers, a marathon runner in his spare time, takes the reader several times around the planet to support his thesis with regional case studies, while considering how problems such as population, mass migrations and the massive extinction of species are related.
The orbits of exocomets on Beta Pictoris could also help scientists trace the presence and migration of larger, undetected bodies such as gas giant planets in the planetary system, says Russel White, an astronomer at Georgia State University in Atlanta who was not involved in the study.