Unsettled Youth: A Chaotic Planetary System

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July 22nd, 2010 • SpitzerAudio-053
During the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dangerous place to live. The planets wobbled and jostled around left over asteroids, comets and other debris floating in between their orbits, causing frequent collisions throughout our solar system.