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  2. Formation and evolution of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    By 10 million years, gas in the protoplanetary disc has been blown away, and outer planet formation is likely complete. [38] 10 million – 100 million years 4.5–4.6 bya: Terrestrial planets and the Moon form. Giant impacts occur. Water delivered to Earth. [2] Main sequence 50 million years 4.5 bya: Sun becomes a main-sequence star. [32] 200 ...

  3. History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses

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    Iwan P. Williams and Alan William Cremin [4] split the models between two categories: those that regard the origin and formation of the planets as being essentially related to the Sun, with the two formation processes taking place concurrently or consecutively, and those that regard the formation of the planets as being independent of the ...

  4. Nebular hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    As a result, astronomers largely abandoned this theory of planet formation at the beginning of the 20th century. According to some, a major critique came during the 19th century from James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), who in some sources is claimed to have maintained that different rotation between the inner and outer parts of a ring could not ...

  5. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the Sun occupies 0.00001% (1 part in 10 7) of the volume of a sphere with a radius the size of Earth's orbit, whereas Earth's volume is roughly 1 millionth (10 −6) that of the Sun. Jupiter, the largest planet, is 5.2 AU from the Sun and has a radius of 71,000 km (0.00047 AU; 44,000 mi), whereas the most distant planet, Neptune, is 30 AU ...

  6. Planet - Wikipedia

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    A planet's year depends on its distance from its star; the farther a planet is from its star, the longer the distance it must travel and the slower its speed, since it is less affected by its star's gravity. No planet's orbit is perfectly circular, and hence the distance of each from the host star varies over the course of its year.

  7. 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.

  8. Vietnamese encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam (Encyclopedia of Vietnam), a state-sponsored encyclopedia which was published in 2005. Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Vietnam War encyclopedias. Encyclopedic works and encyclopedias focused on Vietnam War-related topics.

  9. Circumplanetary disk - Wikipedia

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    Material will flow from the edges of the circumstellar disk towards the planet in streams and around the planet it will form a circumplanetary disk. A circumplanetary disk does therefore form during the late stage of giant planet formation. [6] [7] The size of the disk is limited by the Hill radius. A circumplanetary disk will have a maximal ...