This article a good read on the possible planet history of our Solar System
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by ajamyajax
"Wandering Jupiter accounts for our unusual solar system"
by Kimm Fesenmaier
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-jupiter-accounts-unusual-solar.html
(Update)
"Jupiter's Decisive Role in the Inner Solar System's Early Evolution."
Konstantin Batygin, Gregory Laughlin
http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06945
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