Letters from the July 30, 2005, issue of Science News
By Science News
Led astray
The illustration of the solar system in “Roaming Giants: Did migrating planets shape the solar system?” (SN: 5/28/05, p. 340) does not represent the current orbit of the planets. Rather, it must be a frame from the computer simulation referred to in the article.
William Meadows
Dripping Springs, Texas
Indeed, the image reflects the computer-simulated planet orbits of the early solar system, not as the caption states, current orbits.—R. Cowen