The Great Inequality and the Dynamical Disintegration of the Outer Solar System · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2009.07296/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTThe Great Inequality and the Dynamical Disintegration of the Outer Solar System — mentioned by actually_a_doghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752325urn:hackerpapers:mention:2009.07296:27752325Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:18:56 GMT<p>This is expected to be the ultimate fate of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) after the Sun leaves the main sequence in about 5 billion years. Within 30 billion years of the Sun becoming a red giant, Jupiter and Saturn are predicted to fall into a 5:2 orbital resonance that destabilizes the system, eventually causing all but 1 planet to be ejected within 30 billion years. The remaining planet is expected to be ejected within another 50 billion or so years.[0] So, within about 100 billion years, all that&#x27;s going to be left of our solar system is a white dwarf (which will…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2009.07296/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.EP