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Object twice the size of the Earth hit Uranus and caused it to tilt.

A study using simulations at Durham university says the glancing collision involved a proto-planet twice the size of Earth.

The planet Uranus was given its tilt after being hit in a "cataclysmic collision" by a massive object roughly twice the size of Earth, New research has suggested.

Simulation and pics inside...