Origin Of The Solar System For more than 300 years there has been serious scientific discussion of the processes and events that led to the formation of the solar system. For most of this time lack of knowledge about the physical conditions in the solar system prevented a rigorous approach to the problem. Explanations were especially sought for the regularity in the directions of rotation and orbit of objects in the solar system, the slow rotation …
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…planets. It must be stressed that all theories of the origin of the solar system currently being formulated respond to and are limited by the rapid accumulation of facts about planetary bodies within the solar system. Because of the rapid rate of progress in such studies, it is generally recognized that such theories are preliminary and simplified, so that ideas and theories in this area of research can be expected to continue to evolve rapidly.