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The gravitational acceleration imparted on the solar system's rocky planets by a putative large body X like a planet or a star located at hundreds/thousands AU from the Sun can be considered as a small Hooke-type perturbation A_X = Kr over the characteristic temporal and spatial scales of the inner planetary regions (P_b