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    The nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model in the field of cosmogony to explain the formation and evolution of the Solar System (as well...
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    hypotheses began to build up, including the now-commonly accepted nebular hypothesis. Meanwhile, hypotheses explaining the evolution of the Sun originated...
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    other small Solar System bodies formed. This model, known as the nebular hypothesis, was first developed in the 18th century by Emanuel Swedenborg, Immanuel...
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    mathematics, is also named after him. He restated and developed the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the Solar System and was one of the first scientists...
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  • replacement for the Laplacian version of the nebular hypothesis that had prevailed since the 19th century. The hypothesis was based on the idea that a star passed...
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    and Neptune. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula...
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    its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula...
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    matter through the disk which prohibits achieving a steady state. The nebular hypothesis of solar system formation describes how protoplanetary disks are thought...
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    Sciences starting in 1849. Roche made a mathematical study of Laplace's nebular hypothesis and presented his results in a series of papers to the Academy of...
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    theory of the generation of the universe that was similar to the nebular hypothesis that Thomas Wright and Immanuel Kant had (independently) developed...
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    Lists of nebulae Molecular cloud Magellanic Clouds Messier object Nebular hypothesis Orion molecular cloud complex Timeline of knowledge about the interstellar...
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    object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...
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    other topics. In the Universal Natural History, Kant laid out the nebular hypothesis, in which he deduced that the Solar System had formed from a large...
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    canals were mere optical illusions. Because early versions of the nebular hypothesis of Solar System formation held that the planets were formed sequentially...
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    book begins by tackling the origins of the solar system, using the nebular hypothesis to explain its formation entirely in terms of natural law. It explains...
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    continued to be used. A main component of Rosse's nebular research was his attempt to resolve the nebular hypothesis, which posited that planets and stars were...
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    Solar System Giant-impact hypothesis Interstellar medium List of stars that have unusual dimming periods Nebular hypothesis Planetesimal Protoplanetary...
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    widely accepted model of star formation, sometimes referred to as the nebular hypothesis, a young star (protostar) is formed by the gravitational collapse...
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    Solar System models Formation and evolution of the Solar System – Nebular hypothesis Terrestrial planets Iron planets Mercury Silicate planets Geodynamics...
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    objects, including rocky planets and other bodies. According to the nebular hypothesis, the formation and evolution of the Solar System began 4.6 Gya with...
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    and Neptune. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula...
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  • Goldstein, Bernard R. (1967). "The Arabic version of Ptolemy's planetary hypothesis". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 57 (pt. 4): 6. doi:10...
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    orbits have remained stable following the period of giant impacts. Nebular hypothesis Rogue planet Tidally detached exomoon Ercolano, B.; Pascucci, I. (2017)...
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    from which stars and star clusters were born.[failed verification] This hypothesis was difficult to verify due to the observational difficulties of establishing...
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    meteors that exist must be (at least) extrasolar in origin because the nebular hypothesis for the formation of the Solar System precludes their being solar...
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    process of condensation. This idea, which came to be known as the nebular hypothesis, suggested that natural processes could both create order out of matter...
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  • that the Earth was created by God 6,000 years ago, and not by the nebular hypothesis over billions of years—this is a reference to the belief in Young...
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    collapse over an emptied lava chamber like their terrestrial cousins. One hypothesis suggests that these features are produced through the exhumation of volcanic...
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    by a rotating motion; they are in fact galaxies. Kant proposes the nebular hypothesis, in which solar systems are the result of nebulae (interstellar clouds...
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    cometesimals. The currently favored formation mechanism is that of the nebular hypothesis, which states that comets are probably a remnant of the original planetesimal...
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