Explains major steps in formation of solar system
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| show | A cloud composed mostly of hydrogen and helium as well as gas and dust forms from previous generations of stars. This cloud is from which the solar system is theorized to have originated.
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| show | Due to some disturbance (scientists believe a supernova explosion) the solar nebula begins to gradually collapse in on itself.
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| Step 3 How did the planetary disk form? | show 🗑
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| Step 4 What is a protostar? | show 🗑
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| show | Tiny dust particles from the cooling planetary disk (gas) begin to grow by a process called condensation where one atom molecule is added at a time to make larger particles.
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| Step 6 How did accretion help form planetesimals? | show 🗑
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| show | sticking together of solid particles to produce a larger particle
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| show | small body formed from solar nebula that eventually grows into a protoplanet
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| Step 7 How were the planets eventually formed? | show 🗑
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