Dust Traps Beyond Jupiter Forged the Solar System's Rocky Building Blocks
TL;DR
Simulations suggest a dust-trap region just outside Jupiter served as a long-running nursery for planetesimals, creating two distinct populations of rocky building blocks and likely acting as a major birthplace for the solar system’s planets.
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