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Orbital chaos may cause planetary smash-up within solar system

orbital_chaos_01 A new study in the Thursday’s issue of Nature predicts there’s a real, albeit slim, possibility of a planetary smash-up inside the inner solar system due to the Mercury’s distinctly lopsided orbit.

Forget sending probe to Mars, the planet may come crashing right here to Earth if gravitational interactions substantially agitate its now-stable orbit.

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