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Old 16-04-2010, 10:10 PM
Jarvamundo (Alex)
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I think the far more likely scenario is capture of the counter rotating object... not collision causing a reversal.

The origin of hot gas giants is the big question, as it seems the coalescing gas disk model for them can be turfed for 6/27 of these... if not the lot.

Will also be interesting to see the orbits of any remaining objects in these systems.
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