Re: Are those numbers right???
I don't know about what people think the orbits were like in the early Solar system, but I can't see how things would manage to lose that much energy to change orbit that much.
However I think the 'very similar to the Solar system' really means 'the star is like a young version of the Sun', not that the planets are similar to ours. However the ESO press release does say 'This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, but at a much earlier stage of its evolution', so I'm not sure.
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