THE ORIGIN OF THE

SOLAR SYSTEM
MODEL
• Representation of an idea, object, or even a process
that is used to describe and explain a phenomenon that
cannot be experienced directly.
• GEOCENTRIC MODEL – Claudius Ptolemy
• HELIOCENTRIC MODEL – Nicolaus Copernicus
GEOCENTRIC MODEL
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Places the EARTH at the CENTER of the SOLAR
SYSTEM.
• The sun, moon, stars and five planets (Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) moved around the Earth.
HELIOCENTRIC MODEL
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Proposed an opposing idea to the Geocentric Model.
• A cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to
lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or
of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies
revolve around it.
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
• Is the quantity of rotation of a body, which is the
product of its moment of inertia and its angular velocity.
NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS
• Immanuel Kant and Pierre-Simon Laplace
ORION NEBULA
ORION THE HUNTER
• In Greek mythology, Orion was a giant huntsman whom Zeus (or
perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the 
constellation of Orion.
• Ancient sources told several different stories about Orion; there
are two major versions of his birth and several versions of his
death. The most important recorded episodes are: his birth in 
Boeotia, his visit to Chios where he met Merope and raped her,
being blinded by Merope's father, the recovery of his sight at 
Lemnos, his hunting with Artemis on Crete, his death by the bow
of Artemis or the sting of the giant scorpion which became 
Scorpius, and his elevation to the heavens.
ORIONS BELT CONSTELLATION
• BETELGUESE and RIGEL
ORIONS BELT CONSTELLATION
ORIONS BELT CONSTELLATION
PLANETESIMAL AND TIDAL THEORY
• Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin and Forest Ray Moulton
• They worked on Kant-Laplace nebular hypothesis and
later became the Chamberlin-Moulton Planetesimal
Hypothesis.
PROTOPLANET THEORY
• Gerard Kuiper and Carl von Weizsacker
• A dense interstellar cloud produces a cluster of stars. Dense
regions in the cloud form and coalesce; as the small blobs have
random spins the resulting stars will have low rotation rates. The
planets are smaller blobs captured by the star.
• The small blobs would have higher rotation than is seen in the
planets of the Solar System, but the theory accounts for this by
having the 'planetary blobs' split into planets and satellites.
However, it is not clear how the planets came to be confined to
a plane or why their rotations are in the same sense.