Rene Descartes (1596-1650), a French

mathematician and physicist was one of the

proponents of a model on the origin of the
solar system.
 He explained the orbits of the planets are

primary whirlpool motion and satellites the

secondary whirlpool motion.
George Louise Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-
1788)
a French naturalist in the 18th century who
proposed that the planets were formed by the
collision of the sun with a giant comet.
Descartes, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
Proposed the nebular theory which
suggested that a great cloud of gas and dust
called nebula
Sir James Hopwood Jean(1877 – 1946)
A British mathematician and astrophysicist
and Harold Jeffrey suggested a dualistic
theory in which the sun and planets were
produced by different mechanisms.
Tidal Theory – that the planets were formed
from the substance that was torn out of the
sun.
Interstellar gas and dust cloud
 The solar system was formed as a result of

the condensation of hydrogen gas and dust.

 The gas and cloud collapsed due to the force

of gravity.
 As a cloud continues to shrink its rotational

speed increases and becomes a rapidly

rotating disk.
Planetissimal – first stage is the accretion of
grain-sized particles to form centimeter-
sized particles which would later grow to
several kilometers in diameters.
Protoplanets – second stage involved the
formation of more massive objects from
coalescing planetesimals.
Made up of rocks and are sometimes referred
to as minor planets in many ways.
Ceres – first known asteroid.
Comets – composed mainly of ice and
nonvolatile dust.
Oort cloud – is located farther than the Kuiper
belt.
Kuiper belt – final frontier, it is the outermost
region of Solar System
a. Terrestrial planets
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
b. Jovian planets
1. Jupiter
2. Saturn
3. Uranus
4. Neptune
Frost line – the distance of the solar nebula
from the protostar.
Dwarf planets – is a celestial body that has the
following characteristics
1. Orbits around the sun
2. Has sufficient mass for its self-gravity
3. Has not cleared the neighborhood it.
4. Not a satellite
1. Compare and contrast Kant-Laplace’s
nebular theory and solar nebular theory.
1. He proposed the vortex theory
2. The theory that the planets were formed by
the collision of the sun with a giant comet.
3-4 (2) Philosopher that proposed the nebular
theory
5. How many years does the universe exists?
6. It is the first asteroids
7. It is a blue planet
8. A theory that the planets were formed from
the substance that was torn out of the sun.
9. The outermost region of the solar system
10. He proposed the red shift