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"Investigating the history of the solar system to understand its formation" Today, CNRS research director and President of the CNES Solar System Technical Group, Alessandro continues his research work on the formation and evolution of the solar system. Like an "investigator", he collects clues from observations of planets and small bodies and from chemical and isotopic analyses of meteorites and terrestrial or lunar rocks, and seeks to build a coherent scenario of events that explains the formation of the solar system. The scenario is then tested by numerical simulations and, if validated, it allows the reconstruction of the state of the system at an earlier time. Thus, he goes back step by step to increasingly earlier phases of the history of the solar system, trying to understand why our system has acquired such a particular structure compared to the observed extrasolar systems. More information: www.metiersdelascience.com #VisagesdelaScience