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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. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Vietnam)

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    The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE, Vietnamese: Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường) is a government ministry in Vietnam responsible for: land, water resources; mineral resources, geology; environment; hydrometeorology; climate change; surveying and mapping; management of the islands and the sea.

  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. Geology of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The geology of Vietnam is divided into five structural blocks : Northeast (NE), Northwest (NW), Truongson, Kon Tum and Nambo.The NE block is a part of the South China plate, in which strata and igneous rocks have been found dating from the Early Paleozoic to the Quaternary.

  6. History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses

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    French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes was the first to propose a model for the origin of the Solar System in his book The World, written from 1629 to 1633.. In his view, the universe was filled with vortices of swirling particles, and both the Sun and planets had condensed from a large vortex that had contracted, which he thought could explain the circular motion of the plane

  7. 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.

  8. Planetary science - Wikipedia

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    The history of planetary science may be said to have begun with the Ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, who is reported by Hippolytus as saying . The ordered worlds are boundless and differ in size, and that in some there is neither sun nor moon, but that in others, both are greater than with us, and yet with others more in number.

  9. 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.