EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

THE ORIGIN OF SOLAR SYSTEM

 ICE BREAKER GAME:
1.If you were a brand, what would your slogan be?

2. If you could be any animal, what would you be?

3. If you could have a conversation with any famous person, dead or alive,
whom would you choose?

4. If you were given a million dollars that you had to spend in a week, what
would you buy?

5. What was your favorite childhood game or activity?

6. What is your greatest fear?

7. What superpower do you wish you had?

8. What are your best talents?

9. What is your idea for the next great invention?

10. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? 

 LESSON 1.2

MAIN IDEAS:
THE SOLAR SYSTEM STARTED FROM
DUST SIZED PARTICLES

EQ: WHAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE

PLANETS TO BECOME AS BIG AS THEY
ARE?
A model is representation of an idea, an object , or even a process that is used to describe
and explain phenomena that cannot be experienced directly. Scientists use models to
predict a phenomenon or event, such as the origin of the solar system therefore, a model is
a scientist’s description of an event at the time, demonstrating how science knowledge is
tentative

There are two popular about the solar system:

Claudius Ptolemy’s geocentric model, which state that earth is a center of a solar system,
and Nicholas Copernicus’ beliocentric model, which state the sun is the center of the solar
system.

During the time of Claudius Ptolemy the geocentric model was accepted explanation of the
different motions in the universe. The sun, moon, stars, and five planets (Mercury, Venus,
Mars, and Saturn) moved around earth. Their idea of a solar system at that time was their
idea of the universe where planets move with respect to fixed stars, with changing speed,
and having retrograde motion (strange motion caused by earths motion).

During the sixteenth century. Nicholas Copernicus proposed an opposing idea to the
geocentric model by developing another model that explained the structure of the solar
system. This proposal became the foundation of the Copernican revolution .

In the eighteenth century, the understanding of how the solar system originated became
more than just descriptive models; it became a scientific. The following scientific theories
present the explanation on the origin of the solar system. It is important to note that these
theories build up on the idea of angular momentum. Angular momentum is the quality of
rotation of a body, which is the product of its moment of inertia and its velocity.
 NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749- 1827) were the first to proposed the earliest
theory of how the solar system originated . The Kant-Laplace nebular hypothesis pressures that the solar
system began as a cloud of dispersed interstellar gas called nebula. The mutual gravitational attraction between
particles caused them to start moving and colliding, and they were kept. Together by electrostatic forces. The
resulting nebular aggregates became a larger than others, grew more rapidly, became the planets .

THE ORION NEBULA

The orion nebula situated at the constellation orion is one of the brightest nebulae visible to the naked eye, and
the closest region of a massive star formation an earth. It is composed of interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen,
and helium providing a glimpse of the universe’s past.

Some 40 years later, Pierre-Simon Laplace worked on the existing Kant model, explaining that with the sun
already formed, the continuous rotation of the solar system around an axis would create the planets.
 LESSON 1.2

MAIN IDEAS:
THE SOLAR SYSTEM STARTED FROM
DUST SIZED PARTICLES

EQ: WHAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE

PLANETS TO BECOME AS BIG AS THEY
ARE?
 LESSON 1.2

MAIN IDEAS:
THE SOLAR SYSTEM STARTED FROM
DUST SIZED PARTICLES

EQ: WHAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE

PLANETS TO BECOME AS BIG AS THEY
ARE?