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Dr. Kaitlin Kratter -- Building a Solar System on the Computer
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- The Astrophysics Podcast
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- Dec 1, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 4502
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Summary
How did our solar system form? More generally, how does any solar system form? We get some of our answers to these questions by looking at newly-forming planetary systems in the first million years of their lives. But getting a complete picture also requires a lot of theoretical work, understanding each stage of solar system formation, which often entails big computational models of the early solar system. Dr. Kaitlin Kratter is a leader in the practice of building these big models and using them to improve our understanding of how the planets first formed.