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They used a model to calculate the effect of gravity and physical collisions on and between one million planetary building blocks. Read more in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/2041-8205\/782\/1\/L11\/\">Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>S Lines et al., <em>Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em>, 2014. 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