THE THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN

OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Mr. Christopher Leonen

SUBJECT TEACHER
 Let’s think about this!
Why is Big Bang
Theory the most accepted
theory on the Origin of
the Universe?
TWO POPULAR MODELS
Geocentric Model
Heliocentric Model
Encounter Hypothesis
Buffon’s Collision Theory
sun-comet encounter that sent
matter to form planet;

George-Louis Leclerc, Comte

de Buffon French naturalist
Encounter Hypothesis
Jeans-Jeffreys’ Tidal Theory
sun-star encounter that would
have drawn from the sun matter
that would condense to planets

James Hopwood Jeans and

Harold Jeffrey
NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS
States that the entire
Solar System started as a
large cloud of gas that
contracted due to self-
gravity.
Immanuel Kant and
Pierre-Simon Laplace
PROTOPLANET
HYPOTHESIS
Planets are formed from nebulas that have
collapsed, leaving behind dust and other
particles which will eventually collide to
form planets.
DESCARTES’ VORTEX
THEORY
Rene Descartes
 The Solar System was formed into bodies
with nearly circular orbits because of the
whirlpool-like motion in the pre-solar
materials.
 How can you
take care of our
living planet
earth?