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Prepared by: Mary Gold Y. Sartillo, LPT

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What are the three major steps of Nebular Theory?
Discuss
-Cloud Collapse
-Protoplanetary Disk Formation
- Growth of planets
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 Guide Questions:
1. What happens when two objects bump into
each other too fast?
2. Give at least two characteristics of a dust
trap.
3. What is the importance of dust traps?
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 Guide Questions:
1. What happens when two objects bump into
each other too fast?
2. Give at least two characteristics of a dust
trap.
3. What is the importance of dust traps?
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 Guide Questions:
1. What happens when two objects bump into
each other too fast?
2. Give at least two characteristics of a dust
trap.
3. What is the importance of dust traps?
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 Learning Target:

01 Differentiate the planetesimal and

tidal theory.

Sequence the events of planetesimal

02 and tidal theory.
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 Encounter Theory
- proposes that the planets were formed from the
material ejected from the sun during an
encounter with another celestial object.
- The encounter theory has several forms,
including the planetesimal theory and the tidal
theory.
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Planetesimal Theory
- a passing star termed as INTRUDING STAR nearly collided
with the protosun.
- intruding star causes the protosun to eject filaments of
material.
- materials condensed into PLANETESIMALS from which the
planets were formed through ACCRETION.
- describes Earth starting from a solid mass smaller than its
present size.
- the oceans and the atmosphere were formed on Earth
through volcanic activities.
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accretion of minute solid
particles created planets and
their moons rather than by
gaseous or liquid material
condensation.
However, Moulton provides
mathematical calculations to
Chamberlin’s idea making it
into a solid theory.
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Drawbacks of Planetesimal Theory

- This theory is no longer accepted today due
to the fact that hot material from the sun
expands and dissipates rather than contract.
- In addition, the force from the passing star
will pull dust and gases far away from the
sun, that they would not be able to form the
planets in the solar system
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Tidal Theory
- explains that the solar system formed as a
result of a NEAR COLLISION between a
passing star and the sun.
- proposes that the HOT GAS from the passing
star condensed into PLANETS instead of
condensing into planetesimals.
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Tidal Theory
When the star passed near the sun, the
gravitational attraction pulled the mass of dust
and gas from the remaining nebula around the
sun.
The gas particles then condensed into liquid
and solid states.
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Tidal Theory
The particles clump together to form cosmic
bodies of different sizes.
These bodies further condensed into planets.
Therefore, the interaction from the gravity of
the passing star and the sun led to the
formation of the planets in the solar system.
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Proponents of Tidal Theory

- proposed by James Jeans, an English
physicist, and astronomer, and Harold
Jeffreys, an English mathematician, and
astronomer in 1918.
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Drawbacks of Tidal Theory

- One problem of the tidal theory is that the hot
material from either star cannot contract. Thus,
planets will not form.
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Activity Title: Planet Formation Date:

Activity No. 1.6

Learning Target:
1. Differentiate the planetesimal and tidal theory.
2. Sequence the events of planetesimal and tidal theory.
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Concept Notes:
•The encounter theory proposes that the planets formed
from the material ejected from the sun during an encounter
with another celestial object. It has several forms, including
the planetesimal theory and the tidal theory.
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A. Arrange the following events in order. Write numbers 1 to 5.

Planetesimal theory

__Materials ejected from the protosun condensed into

planetesimals.
__The oceans and the atmosphere were formed on Earth
through volcanic activities.
__The planets formed by accretion.
__The protosun ejects filaments of materials.
__An intruding star nearly collided with a protosun.
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A. Arrange the following events in order. Write numbers 1 to 5.

Tidal theory

__These bodies further condensed into planets.

__The gravitational attraction pulled the mass of dust and
gas from the remaining nebula around the sun.
__The particles clumped to form cosmic bodies of different
sizes.
__The gas particles then condensed into liquid and solid
states.
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__A star passed near the sun.

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B. Differentiate the planetesimal and tidal theory. Limit your answer

in 3 to 5 sentences ONLY.
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