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Planetary science

the proposal that giant planets form directly when a massive protoplanetary disc fragments under its own gravity.

In planetary science, gravitational instability model of planet formation refers to the proposal that giant planets form directly when a massive protoplanetary disc fragments under its own gravity. This meaning comes from Boss (1997) in Science.[1]

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Boss, A. P. (1997). Giant Planet Formation by Gravitational Instability. Science, 276(5320), 1836-1839. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.276.5320.1836

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