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Study Suggests Rocky Planets Formed from Two Rings Around Young Sun

A new study proposes that the solar system's inner rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—formed from two distinct rings of material around the young sun, rather than a single protoplanetary disk. The model accounts for the planets' masses, orbits, and compositions. Resear…