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Loading contentA mechanism that helps solve core accretion's timing problem: centimetre-sized 'pebbles' drifting inward through the disk are efficiently swept up by a growing embryo, letting cores reach giant-planet mass far faster than by collisions of larger bodies alone. It has become a central ingredient in modern planet-formation theory.
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