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PLANETARY BUMPER CARS. Chaotic perturbations of orbits, largely due to the gravitational effects of Jupiter, could send planets in the inner solar system crashing into one another (such as Mars and Earth, illustrated here) sometime in the next 5 billion years, a new study suggests. Credit: ILLUSTRATION: J. Vidal-Madjar, IMCEE-CNRS

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