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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. 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 ...

  4. Formation and evolution of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    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, and Pierre ...

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

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    In cosmogony, the nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model explaining the formation and evolution of the Solar System. It was first proposed in 1734 by Emanuel Swedenborg. Originally applied only to our own Solar System, this method of planetary system formation is now thought to be at work throughout the universe.

  6. Portal:Science - 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. 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.

  7. Planetesimal - Wikipedia

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    Planetesimals that have survived to the current day are valuable to science because they contain information about the formation of the Solar System. Although their exteriors are subjected to intense solar radiation that can alter their chemistry, their interiors contain pristine material essentially untouched since the planetesimal was formed.

  8. EDITORIAL: GPP solar project can be a model

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    Sep. 3—Upon picking up today's paper, you probably noticed the story we have running regarding the solar project that Games People Play have undertaken in order to be more environmentally conscious.

  9. Protoplanetary disk - Wikipedia

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    A model of a protoplanetary disk Some of the moons of Jupiter , Saturn , and Uranus are believed to have formed from smaller, circumplanetary analogs of the protoplanetary disks. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The formation of planets and moons in geometrically thin, gas- and dust-rich disks is the reason why the planets are arranged in an ecliptic plane .