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A single impact could leave a giant planet ringing for millions of years

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To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of multitudes of collisions. The early solar system was like a debris field where objects smashed into each other in cascades of collisions. The same must be true in all young solar systems, and in a new paper, researchers describe how they simulated a collision between two massive planets to see what would happen.