Formation and evolution of the Solar System
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Formation and evolution of the Solar System
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There is evidence that the formation of the Solar System began about 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud. Most of the collapsing mass collected in the center, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed. This model, known as the nebular hypothesis, was first developed in the 18th century by Emanuel Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System
date created:
2006-06-23T07:04:23Z
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2024-09-09T10:33:48Z
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