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Interstellar Visitor May Have Altered Orbits of Our Outer Solar System Planets
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- An interstellar object may have changed outer planets' orbits.
- The object was possibly eight times Jupiter's mass.
- This event might have happened 4 billion years ago.
- 50,000 simulations were run; 1% matched our solar system.
- The cosmic body approached Mars' current orbit.
- Research suggests substellar visits are common in space.
- Study on arXiv may reshape solar system dynamics understanding.
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