• Question: what do you know abot the soalar system and how all the planets were formed???

    Asked by #Capers 5 to Simonne, Senga, James, Jake, Pete on 10 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by jojo 2.
    • Photo: Jake Langham

      Jake Langham answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      Hiya, we already answered a quite similar question here /plutoniumn17-zone/2017/11/09/how-was-the-sun-formed/

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      If you want to know more though leave a comment and I can add some more information during the weekend. 🙂

    • Photo: Senga Robertson

      Senga Robertson answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      Hi #Capers5

      this is the answer I gave when asked a similar question. If you’d like to know more please ask away 🙂
      great question. I didn’t know the full answer so I had to look on the internet to get more information.

      A lot of scientists think that the sun was formed about 4.6 billion years ago and that the sun (and everything in our solar system) formed from a massive, rotating cloud of gas and dust which they call “the solar nebula”. They think the solar nebula collapsed because of its gravity, so it was spinning so fast it ended up squishing in on itself into a sort of disk shape. Most of the gas and dust got pulled in to the middle of the disk and the sun war formed. The gas and dust that didn’t get sucked in to form the sun ended up forming the rest of the solar system.

      I also found out that scientists think that the sun still has enough energy to last for another 5 billion years……….that’s a longer time than my brain can even think about…if you think of how different our planet was even “only”millions of years ago (dinosaurs were walking the earth) it’s amazing to even try and have a guess at how different our planet will be 5 billion years from now. My mind is pretty blown thinking about that to be honest, I won’t lie.

      What do you think Earth will be like in 5 billion years?

      Senga

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