The MOST Likely Mechanism for the Solar System Is That

question 86

Multiple Choice

The MOST likely mechanism for the solar system is that the:

• A) Sun and planets slowly condensed to their present form from a gas and dust cloud.
• B) Sun captured the planets as they drifted through space.
• C) solar system was once a galaxy from which the Sun and planets are the remnants, after evolution.
• D) planets were spun out of the Sun as smaller gas clouds and subsequently condensed.

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