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The supernova shell fragmentation model of solar system formation — previously shown to be successful in describing the mass distribution of our solar system — is used to calculate the mass distributions of other solar nebulae.
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Brown, W.K. Possible mass distributions in the nebulae of other solar systems. Earth Moon Planet 37, 225–239 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00116638
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