SOLAR SYSTEM HYPOTHESES

Terrestrial planets are located near the sun.

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As the mass decreases, the gravity increases.

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Protoplanets are smaller than planetesimals because they are made up of small, rocky, and icy body collided to form planets..

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Angular momentum can be used to explain the rotation and revolution of planets.

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Planets near the sun are lighter than the planets away from the sun.

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The arrangement of the nebular hypothesis is:

a. solar nebula

b. creation of the accretion disk.

c. protoplanets formed

d. hot gas formed at the center

e. Terrestrial planets formed near the sun and jovian planets formed far from the sun

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The sequence of events in the Encounter Hypothesis:

a. rogue star passed close to the sun

b. fragments were stripped off to the sun nd the rogue star

c. fragments turned into planets.

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The three hypotheses about the solar system ahve similarities and differences.

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