Hypothesis

supporting the birth of our Solar System

Nebular Hypothesis
In the 1700s Emanuel Swedenborg,
Immanuel Kant, and Pierre-Simon Laplace
a
independently thought of

rotating gaseous cloud

that cools and
contracts in the
middle to form the sun and the rest
into a disc that become the planets.
Encounter Hypotheses
A rogue star passes close to the Sun about 5 billion years ago.

Material, in the form of hot gas, is tidally stripped from the Sun and
the rogue star.

This material fragments into smaller lumps which form the planets.
A rogue star passes close to the Sun about 5 billion years ago.

Material, in the form of hot gas, is tidally stripped from the Sun and
the rogue star. This material fragments into smaller lumps which
form the planets.
Protoplanet Hypotheses - Current
Hypothesis
4.6 billion years ago, in the Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy, a slowly-
rotating gas and dust cloud dominated by hydrogen and helium starts to
contract due to gravity.

The mass move to the center to eventually become a proto-Sun, the

remaining materials form a disc that will eventually become the planets and
momentum is transferred outwards.

Due to collisions, fragments of dust and solid matter begin sticking to each
other to form larger and larger bodies from meter to kilometer in size
Protoplanet Hypotheses - Current
Hypothesis
High-speed collisions with large objects destroys much of the mantle of
Mercury, puts Venus in retrograde rotation.

Collision of the Earth with large object produces the moon. This is supported
by the composition of the moon very similar to the Earth's Mantle

When the proto-Sun is established as a star, its solar wind blasts hydrogen,
helium, and volatiles from the inner planets to beyond Mars to form the gas
giants leaving behind a system we know today.