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Fig. 3.

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Final eccentricities of all “resolved” planets vs. the number of close encounters that each planet experienced. A close encounter is defined as two planets having a closest approach inside 3 Hill radii. The greater the number of close encounters, the greater the probability that the giant planet will reach an extremely high eccentricity.

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