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Comment by nickparker

IIRC we've found some big exoplanets in wild orbits. They tend to form in a circular-ish orbit because that's how you get a big enough chunk of the dense bits of an accretion disk, but interactions with other planets/stars can put eg gas giants into wild orbits after formation.

EG https://astronomynow.com/2019/08/28/exoplanet-found-in-unusu...

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