If we had rock samples to study, we'd know whether these small craters were formed by impacts during the final stages of planetary formation, or if they resulted from later meteor showers.

如果我们有岩石样本用于研究，我们就能知道，这些小陨石坑是在行星形成的最后阶段被撞击形成的，还是后来的流星雨造成的。

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These disks are the remnants of planetary formation.

这些圆盘是行星形成的剩余物质。

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This lends support to current theories of planetary formation.

这也为现在的行星形成理论提供了证据。

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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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