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    The protoplanet hypothesis suggests that about 5 billion years ago a great cloud of gas and dust rotated slowly in space. The cloud was at least 10 billion kilometers in diameter. As time passed, the cloud shrank under the pull of its own gravitation or was made to collapse by the explosion of a passing star. Most of the cloud's material gathered around its own center. Its shrinking made it rotate faster, like a spinning whirlpool. The compression of its material made its interior so hot that a powerful reaction, hydrogen fusion, began and the core of the cloud blazed into a newborn sun. About 10 percent of the material in the cloud formed a great plate-like disk surrounding the sun far into space. Friction within the disk caused most of its mass to collect in a number of huge whirlpools or eddies. These eddies shrank into more compact masses called protoplanets and later formed planets and moons. Some uncollected material remains even today as comets, meteoroids, and asteroids.

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    The protoplanet hypothesis suggests that about 5 billion years ago a great cloud of gas and dust rotated slowly in space. The cloud was at least 10 billion kilometers in diameter. As time passed, the cloud shrank under the pull of its own gravitation or was made to collapse by the explosion of a passing star. Most of the cloud's material gathered around its own center. Its shrinking made it rotate faster, like a spinning whirlpool. The compression of its material made its interior so hot that a powerful reaction, hydrogen fusion, began and the core of the cloud blazed into a newborn sun. About 10 percent of the material in the cloud formed a great plate-like disk surrounding the sun far into space. Friction within the disk caused most of its mass to collect in a number of huge whirlpools or eddies. These eddies shrank into more compact masses called protoplanets and later formed planets and moons. Some uncollected material remains even today as comets, meteoroids, and asteroids.

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    Lesson 2 Universe and The Solar System (Protoplanet Hypothesis-Current Hypothesis)

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    The protoplanet hypothesis suggests that about 5 billion years ago a great cloud of gas and dust rotated slowly in space. The cloud was at least 10 billion kilometers in diameter. As time passed, the cloud shrank under the pull of its own gravitation or was made to collapse by the explosion of a passing star. Most of the cloud's material gathered around its own center. Its shrinking made it rotate faster, like a spinning whirlpool. The compression of its material made its interior so hot that a powerful reaction, hydrogen fusion, began and the core of the cloud blazed into a newborn sun. About 10 percent of the material in the cloud formed a great plate-like disk surrounding the sun far into space. Friction within the disk caused most of its mass to collect in a number of huge whirlpools or eddies. These eddies shrank into more compact masses called protoplanets and later formed planets and moons. Some uncollected material remains even today as comets, meteoroids, and asteroids.

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    PROTOPLANET

    HYPOTHESES-CURRENT
    HYPOTHESIS
    *About 4.6 billion years ago , in the Orion arm of the
    Milky Way galaxy, a slowly-rotating gas and dust cloud
    dominated by hydrogen and helium starts to contract
    due to gravity .
    Orion Arm- is a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way some 3,500 light-
    years (1,100 parsecs) across and approximately 10,000 light-years
    (3,100 parsecs) in length.
    Milky Way Galaxy-is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its
    name "milky" is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band
    arching across the night sky whose individual stars cannot be
    distinguished by the naked eye..
    *As most of the mass move to the center eventually
    become a proto-Sun, the remaining materials form a
    disk that will eventually become a planets and
    momentum is transferred outwards.

    Proto-Sun- the gaseous cloud that underwent gravitational


    collapse to form the sun.
    *Due to collisions, fragments of dust and solid matter
    begin sticking to each other to form larger and larger
    bodies from meter to kilometer in size. These proto-
    planets are accretions of frozen water, ammonia,
    methane, silicon, aluminum, iron and other metals in rock
    and mineral grains enveloped in hydrogen and helium.

    Accretion- a gradual process in which layers of a material are


    formed as small amounts are added over time.
    *High-speed collisions with large
    objects destroys much of the
    mantle of Mercury, puts Venus in
    retrograde rotation.
    *Collision of the Earth large object
    produces the moon l. This is supported by
    the composition of the moon very similar
    to the Earth’s Mantle.
    When the proto-Sun is established as a star, its solar wind
    blasts hydrogen, helium and volatiles from the inner
    planets to beyond Mars to form the gas giants leaving
    behind a system we know today.

    Solar wind-plasma continuously ejected from the sun's surface


    into and through interplanetary space
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