Dr Becky has a lot to explain about the migration of the planets in our solar system

Simulation of a protoplanetary disk with forming planets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPouwOKMS2s

Young planets trade angular momentum with the gas disk they form in, so their orbits can drift inward or outward.

Saturn’s interaction with Jupiter and the disk is part of why the giants are not where they first condensed.

Friday September 11th 2020