“ RIVAL THEORIES”

2. ENCOUNTER HYPOTHESES
 Buffon’s (1749) Sun- comet encounter
that sent matter to form planet;

 James Jean’s (1917) Sun- star

encounter that would have drawn
from the sun matter that would
condense to planets,
T.C Chamberlain and F.R. Moulton’s (1904)
planetesimal hypothesis involving a star
much bigger than the sun passing by the Sun
and draws gaseous filaments from both out
which planetisimals were formed;

Ray Lyttleton’s (1940) sun’s companion star

colliding with another to form a proto-
planet that breaks up to form Jupiter and
Saturn.
Otto Schmidt’s accretion theory
proposed that the Sun passed
through a dense interstellar cloud
and emerged with a dusty, gaseous
envelope that eventually became the
planets. However, it cannot explain
how the planets and satellites were
formed. The time required to form
the planets exceeds the age of the
solar system.
M.M. Wodfson’s capture theory is a
variation of James Jeans’ near- collision
hypothesis. In this scenario, the Sun
drags from a near proto- star a filament
of material which becomes the planets.
Collisions between proto- planets close
to the Sun produced the terrestrial
planets; condensations in the filament
produced the giant planet and their
satellites. Different ages for the Sun and
planets is predicted by this theory.
• Nobel Prize winner Harold Urey’s
compositional studies on meteorites in the
1950’s and other scientists work on these
objects led to the conclusion that meteorite
constituents have changed very little since
the solar system’s early history and can give
clues about their formation. The currently
accepted theory on the origin of the solar
system relies much on information from
meteorites.
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