Intermediate Gas Giants Challenge Planet Formation Theory

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The recent discovery of thirty new exoplanets in other solar systems presents another challenge to the most popular secular theory of planet formation.1,2 These exoplanets are smaller versions of our gas giant Saturn. A recent survey shows that these intermediate gas giants are ten times more common than predicted by the secular theory.3

One of these intermediate gas giants, designated O… More…

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