Simulation of formation of a solar system

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Are there any usable simulation in the literature on the formation of a solar system?
It is possible for example that a solar system has 100 big planets?
 
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mersecske said:
Are there any usable simulation in the literature on the formation of a solar system?
It is possible for example that a solar system has 100 big planets?

I'm sure models of the solar system are fairly common, for example, here's a couple of images from a simulation of the Nice model of the solar system formation.
800px-Lhborbits.png

and a paper discussing the above model.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3008v1
I assume there would also be models testing whether it is possible for Gas Giants to migrate towards their star due to interactions with the proto-planetary disc.

When you say big planets, what sort of mass do you mean? A Jupiter Mass, an Earth Mass?
I'd guess it's unlikely that a system would be able to form that many planets of a terrestrial mass or more, I don't have any papers to show that though.
 

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