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gravitational pull between planets The gravitational relationship that each planet has with the sun is much stronger than the gravitational effect that planets have on each other. There are some effects that the planets have on one another called perturbations. These are minor and would never cause the planets to come dangerously close together. The planets originally formed in very much the same orbits that they occupy today. Any large chunks of material or large clouds of gas that were between the known orbits long ago got taken up by one of the adjacent planets. This is the process of 'clearing the neighborhood' that is part of the definition of planet, and it is the main reason why planets are far enough apart not to have an overly strong effect on neighboring planets.

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