chapter 14

Question 1

What are the reasons for the patterns in the solar system, to be found in its
formation from a solar nebula and accidental collisions?

Answer 1

Motion limitations, chemical constraints, and age constraints must all be considered when developing a credible theory of solar system formation. The solar nebula, from which the solar system formed, left behind meteorites, comets, and asteroids. An interstellar cloud of gas and dust collided, forming this nebula. Planetesimals, which became the building blocks of the planets, formed as a result of condensation in the disk.