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List some ways in which the solar system is an "orderly" place.?

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List some ways in which the solar system is an "orderly" place.?

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  1. Ir's general configuration has lasted for billions of years.


  2. it's governed by the laws of physics, thermodynamics, conservation of matter and energy, etc etc.

    Or, if this is an actual homework question, switch schools because that is the most pointless homework question ever assigned.

  3. what do you mean

  4. Our solar system is an orderly place, making it unlikely that the planets were simply captured by the Sun. The overall organization points toward formation as the product of an ancient, one-time event, 4.6 billion years ago. An ideal theory of the solar system should provide strong reasons for the observed characteristics of the planets yet be flexible enough to allow for deviations.

    In the nebular theory of the formation of the solar system, a large cloud of dust and gas—the solar nebula—began to collapse under its own gravity. As it did so, it began to spin faster, to conserve angular momentum, eventually forming a disk. Protoplanets formed in the disk and became planets, and the central protosun eventually evolved into the Sun.

    The nebular theory is an example of an evolutionary theory, in which the properties of the solar system evolved smoothly into their present state. In a catastrophic theory, changes occur abruptly, as the result of accident or chance.

    The condensation theory builds on the nebular theory by incorporating the effects of particles of interstellar dust, which helped cool the nebula and acted as condensation nuclei, allowing the planet-building process to begin.

    Small clumps of matter grew by accretion, gradually sticking together and growing into moon-sized planetesimals, whose gravitational fields were strong enough to accelerate the accretion process. Competing with accretion in the solar nebula was fragmentation, the breaking up of small bodies following collisions with larger ones. Eventually, only a few planet-sized objects remained. The planets in the outer solar system became so large that they could capture the hydrogen and helium gas in the solar nebula, forming the jovian worlds.

    The condensation theory can explain the basic differences between the jovian and terrestrial planets because the temperature of the solar nebula would be expected to decrease with increasing distance from the Sun. At any given location, the temperature would determine which materials could condense out of the nebula and so control the composition of any planets forming there. The terrestrial planets are rocky because they formed in the hot inner regions of the solar nebula, near the Sun, where only rocky and metallic materials condensed out. Farther out, the nebula was cooler, and ices of water and ammonia could also form, leading to the observed differences in composition between the inner and outer solar system.

    When the Sun became a star, its strong winds blew away any remaining gas in the solar nebula. Many leftover planetesimals were ejected into the Oort cloud by the gravitational fields of the outer planets. They now occasionally revisit our part of the solar system as comets. In the inner solar system, light elements such as hydrogen and helium would have escaped into space. Much, if not all, of Earth's water was carried to our world by comets deflected from the outer solar system.

    The asteroid belt is a collection of planetesimals that never managed to form a planet, probably because of Jupiter's gravitational influence. Many "odd" aspects of the solar system may conceivably be explained in terms of collisions late in the formation stages of the protoplanetary system.

    The angular momentum problem is that although the Sun contains virtually all the solar system's mass, it accounts for almost none of the angular momentum. It is believed that the solar wind or ejected planetesimals carried off the Sun's initially high angular momentum, allowing its spin to slow to the rate observed today.

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