If you look up Hot Jupiters and Planetary Migration, it’s possible our system is a rarity, in that there are multiple observed cases of gas giants of extremely short orbital periods and proximity to their parent stars, which is suspected to be due to an inward migration. We’re lucky Jupiter hasn’t done the same and swallowed up the terrestrial planets. It’s position also protects us from many potential incoming meteorites.
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If you look up Hot Jupiters and Planetary Migration, it’s possible our system is a rarity, in that there are multiple observed cases of gas giants of extremely short orbital periods and proximity to their parent stars, which is suspected to be due to an inward migration. We’re lucky Jupiter hasn’t done the same and swallowed up the terrestrial planets. It’s position also protects us from many potential incoming meteorites.