GEOL 1121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Formation And Evolution Of The Solar System, Antonio Vivaldi, Abyssal Plain
17 Mar 2018
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Population growth - major issue in all environmental problem. Earth - 1 of 4 terrestrial planets (mercury, venus, mars) In a plane close to ecliptic (earth/sun plane) Resembles a rotating disk with mass at center. Growth of planet by adhesion than collision r. Planets travel in the same direction, and most rotate in the same direction. Additionally, all the planets orbit in a plane close to the ecliptic (plane of earth"s orbit) i. e. the solar system is a rotating disc with mass concentration (sun) at the center. Dust- and/or star-rich rotating disks are common in the universe which provides evidence for a model for the origin of the solar system. Disk of gas and dust spinning around the young sun - dust grains. Adhesion - dust grains clump into planetesimals. Gravitation - planetesimals collide and collect into planets. Model: origin of solar system as a rotating disk of dusk.
