Well attestedNamed from the place
Nice model
noun · first attested 2005
A French city gave its name to the standard account of how the solar system settled down.
An astronomical model in which the giant planets migrated from a tighter early arrangement into their present orbits.
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 2005
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- noun
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Nice model
The model was worked out at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in Nice and published in a set of papers in 2005. It explains the Late Heavy Bombardment, the scattered Kuiper belt, and Jupiter's Trojan asteroids as consequences of the giant planets moving after the gas disk cleared. Astronomers pronounce it like the city, not like the English adjective.
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