Comments on: How Special is the Solar System? https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/17/how-special-is-the-solar-system/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Yuksel https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/17/how-special-is-the-solar-system/#comment-2943 Sat, 22 Aug 2015 14:12:33 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5109#comment-2943 Is the source code of any of the computer simulations mentioned in the article available?

]]> By: Tobi https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/17/how-special-is-the-solar-system/#comment-2911 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:24:12 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5109#comment-2911 I keep reading that the bias for close large planets of the transit and radial velocity method are taken into account. When swapping some quick numbers in my head I easily get to a bias of 1:4 against far-out planets (possibly worse), which makes them not so seldom.

So, out of curiosity:

What other planetary formation model actually WOULD explain gas planets creating further out preferentially or even at arbitrary distances with equal chances?

]]> By: Silas Opensourcerer (@sijodk) https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/17/how-special-is-the-solar-system/#comment-2910 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:18:21 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5109#comment-2910 I doubt it. The margin of error over a few billion years would render such calculations useless.

]]> By: Jpatrick https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/17/how-special-is-the-solar-system/#comment-2906 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:09:00 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5109#comment-2906 Was the extraordinary history of Jupiter inferred by taking the known orbits of objects in the solar system and then running them backward for a few billion years?

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