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Origins and Structures of the Solar System

Origins and Structures of the Solar System. By: Jedd Paltao. ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM The solar system was formed around 4.5 billion years ago from a giant swirling clouds of dust. The Nebular hypothesis

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Origins and Structures of the Solar System

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  1. Origins and Structures of the Solar System By: Jedd Paltao

  2. ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM The solar system was formed around 4.5 billion years ago from a giant swirling clouds of dust. The Nebular hypothesis Developed by by Immanuel Kant and given scientific form by P. S. Laplace at the end of the 18th century • solar nebula B. contraction into rotating disk C. Cooling causing condensing into tiny (dust sized) solid particles D. Collisions between these form larger bodies E. These accrete to form planets http://oz.plymouth.edu/~sci_ed/Turski/Courses/Earth_Science/Intro.html

  3. Protoplanet hypothesis by: Carl von Weizsacker and Gerard Kuiper. • The solar system begins to form as a rotating cloud, or nebulae, collapses. • (B) Instabilities in the nebulae cause dust particles to stick together. • (C) The Sun begins to radiate energy and vaporize dust in the inner part of the Solar System. http://library.thinkquest.org ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

  4. Structure of the Solar System

  5. The solar system has three distinct regions • Inner Region / Terrestrial planets are small, dense, rocky worlds • Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids • Outer region / Jovian beyond asteroid belt and are large gaseous, low density worlds • Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Moons • Trans-Neptunian region • Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud Solar System is still filled with smaller bodies, such as satellites , asteroids, and comets

  6. Inner Region / Terrestrial planets barnabu.co.uk

  7. Outer Region barnabu.co.uk

  8. astrobioloblog.wordpress.com The Kuiper Belt astrobioloblog.wordpress.com

  9. Oort Cloud abyss.uoregon.edu

  10. Comets Meteors and Asteroids daviddarling.info Moons/Satellites of the Solar System http://www.universetoday.com

  11. Solar System Formation • Inner solar system -- volatiles boil off, • and creates small terrestrial planets • Outer solar system -- large planet cores form rapidly from refractory and icy material, acquire large gas envelopes • ( Jovian Planets) • Edge of solar system -- leftover and ejected icy planetesimals form Kuiper belt and Oort cloud

  12. Thank You For Listening To our Presentation The END References: http://www.nhm.ac.uk http://www.msnucleus.org http://athene.as.arizona.edu

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