Comments on: Disks http://oklo.org/2008/04/21/disks-2/ characterizing planetary systems Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:53:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: greg http://oklo.org/2008/04/21/disks-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4871 greg Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:03:24 +0000 http://oklo.org/?p=277#comment-4871 It's not fully clear, since the level of analysis that's been applied to the solar system configuration hasn't been applied to the systems that arise from the accretion simulations. My guess is that our configuration is more stable than the average, but at this point, that's just a guess. It’s not fully clear, since the level of analysis that’s been applied to the solar system configuration hasn’t been applied to the systems that arise from the accretion simulations. My guess is that our configuration is more stable than the average, but at this point, that’s just a guess.

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://oklo.org/2008/04/21/disks-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4870 Lab Lemming Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:48:57 +0000 http://oklo.org/?p=277#comment-4870 If you start with 170 moon-sized planetesimals in the inner instead of our current configuration, you presumably end up with a number of different possible initial inner solar systems by the time they all accrete or eject. If you run the alternate systems generated by this method with a real jupiter, do they tend to be more or less stable than the one we have? In other words, is our present inner solar system configuration unusually stable, or unusually dangerous? If you start with 170 moon-sized planetesimals in the inner instead of our current configuration, you presumably end up with a number of different possible initial inner solar systems by the time they all accrete or eject.

If you run the alternate systems generated by this method with a real jupiter, do they tend to be more or less stable than the one we have? In other words, is our present inner solar system configuration unusually stable, or unusually dangerous?

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