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  2. Nebular hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The widely accepted modern variant of the nebular theory is the solar nebular disk model (SNDM) or solar nebular model. [1] It offered explanations for a variety of properties of the Solar System, including the nearly circular and coplanar orbits of the planets, and their motion in the same direction as the Sun's rotation.

  3. Portal:Astronomy/Featured/February 2010 - Wikipedia

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    The widely accepted modern variant of the nebular hypothesis is Solar Nebular Disk Model (SNDM) or simply Solar Nebular Model. According to SNDM stars form in massive and dense clouds of molecular hydrogen—giant molecular clouds (GMC). They are gravitationally unstable, and matter coalesces to smaller denser clumps within, which then proceed ...

  4. History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses

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    The vortex model of 1944, [4] formulated by the German physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, hearkens back to the Cartesian model by involving a pattern of turbulence-induced eddies in a Laplacian nebular disc. In Weizsäcker's model, a combination of the clockwise rotation of each vortex and the anti-clockwise rotation of ...

  5. Geology of solar terrestrial planets - Wikipedia

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    Artist's conception of a protoplanetary disk. The Solar System is believed to have formed according to the nebular hypothesis, first proposed in 1755 by Immanuel Kant and independently formulated by Pierre-Simon Laplace. [2] This theory holds that 4.6 billion years ago the Solar System formed from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular ...

  6. Viktor Safronov - Wikipedia

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    Viktor Sergeevich Safronov (Russian: Ви́ктор Серге́евич Сафро́нов) (born Velikie Luki; 11 October 1917 in Russia – 18 September 1999 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet astronomer who put forward the low-mass-nebula model of planet formation, a consistent picture of how the planets formed from a disk of gas and dust around the Sun.

  7. Wikipedia : Peer review/Nebular hypothesis/archive1

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    The main problem is the mechanism of angular momentum transport from the inner to the outer part of the disk, which is necessary for efficient accretion by the protostar. - umm, this needs to be in plainer english or explained a little; As the envelope's material infalls onto the disk - infalls is ungainly. Try 'falls' or 'settles' or somesuch.

  8. Accretion disk - Wikipedia

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    The Shakura–Sunyaev α-disk model is both thermally and viscously unstable. An alternative model, known as the β {\displaystyle \beta } -disk, which is stable in both senses assumes that the viscosity is proportional to the gas pressure ν ∝ α p g a s {\displaystyle \nu \propto \alpha p_{\mathrm {gas} }} .

  9. Young stellar object - Wikipedia

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    A star forms by accumulation of material that falls in to a protostar from a circumstellar disk or envelope. Material in the disk is cooler than the surface of the protostar, so it radiates at longer wavelengths of light producing excess infrared emission. As material in the disk is depleted, the infrared excess decreases.