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Did early "flybys" tilt the giant planets and not collisions?

ljk — 4/27/2006 2:31:54 PM (archived)

GRAVITY DANCE TILTED GIANT PLANETS (Space & Astronomy News, 27/4/06)

An early gravitational dance made the giant planets tilt, an astronomer
suggests.

http://abc.net.au/science/news/space/SpaceRepublish_1624888.htm

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