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Formation of the asteroids and planets

Author:      carol a jackson
How were asteroids and other planets formed?

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Author:      asmith
Probably around the same time the Sun formed - there was a huge cloud of gas
and dust.  Most of it condensed into the plane of the planets orbits around
the Sun because of the initial rotation of the cloud.  The inner stuff
became the Sun itself, and a portion of the outer stuff in the cloud
gradually cooled down and condensed into the planets and other solar system
objects.

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