Neptune May Have Eaten a Planet and Stolen Its Moon

jitendraharlalka noted a piece about the origins of Neptune. There is a theory now that it once ate a super-earth in the outer solar system, and kept its moon as some sort of macabre trophy to make sure that Mars and Venus didn't get any big ideas.

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Worlds In Collision

[lastrogue]

This brings to mind Immanuel Velikovsky's book worlds in collision. I'm don't remember if this instance is in his book, but I've noticed that many scientists take credit for what was already hypothesized by Velikovsky.