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Essay Archive - Origin Of The Solar System
Origin Of The Solar System
For more than 300 years there has been serious scientific discussion
of the processes and events that led to the formation of the solar system.
For most of this time lack of knowledge about the physical conditions in
the solar system prevented a rigorous approach to the problem. Explanations
were especially sought for the regularity in the directions of rotation and
orbit of objects in the solar system, the slow rotation of the Sun, and the
Titius-Bode law, which states that the radii of the planetary orbits
increase in a regular fashion throughout the solar system. In ....
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