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Stranger sightings have also been made, which may rewrite theories of planetary formation completely.
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Some astronomers argue that if a star gets too massive, it will disrupt the planetary formation process.
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The bad news is that the Upsilon Andromedae system is too strange to be explained by current theories of planetary formation.
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Besides requiring astronomers to dream up a new mnemonic for their stellar classification, the existence of a grey area between stars and planets reveals the extent to which the processes of planetary and stellar formation are still a mystery.
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Dr. THOMMES: Well, it seems to us, from these simulations that we did, that sort of a history of violence is the norm, rather than the exception, when it comes to the formation of planetary systems.
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Gary Huss, a cosmochemist at the University of Hawaii, says chondrule formation would appear to be a required step to form planetary bodies of more than a meter in size.
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