ENCOUNTER

THEORY

BY: GROUP 1
WHAT IS ENCOUNTER
THEORY?
• THE ENCOUNTER THEORY
PROPOSES THAT THE PLANETS
WERE FORMED FROM THE
MATERIAL EJECTED FROM THE SUN
DURING AN ENCOUNTER WITH
ANOTHER CELESTIAL OBJECT.
• THIS CELESTIAL OBJECT COULD
HAVE BEEN ANOTHER STAR.
• THE ENCOUNTER THEORY HAS
SEVERAL FORMS, INCLUDING THE
 PROPONENTS/DRAWBACKS OF ENCOUNTER
THEORY
• GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON
(1707-1788), EXPLAINS THAT THE SOLAR SYSTEM
FORMED AS A RESULT OF A NEAR COLLISION
BETWEEN A PASSING STAR AND THE SUN.
• THE DRAWBACK OF THE ENCOUNTER THEORY IN
THIS CONTEXT IS THE LOW PROBABILITY OF THE
SUN ENCOUNTERING A MASSIVE STAR. DURING
THE FORMATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE
EXISTENCE OF MASSIVE STARS WAS RARE AND
PLANETESIMAL
THEORY
THE PLANETESIMAL
THEORY SUGGESTS THAT
EARTH FORMED FROM A
SOLID MASS SMALLER
THAN IT'S CURRENT SIZE,
WITH OCEANS AND
ATMOSPHERE FORMED
THROUGH VOLCANIC
ACTIVITIES, RESULTING
FROM THE
GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF
AN INTRUDING STAR.
(THE MATERIALS ARE
 EVENT ORDER OF PLANETESIMAL
THEORY
1. AN INTRIGUING STAR NEARLY COLLIDED
WITH THE PROTOSUN.
2. THE PROTOSUN EJECTS FILAMENTS OF
MATERIALS.
3. MATERIALS EJECTED FROM THE PROTOSUN
CONDENSED INTO PLANETESIMALS.
4. THE PLANETS FORMED BY ACCRETION.
 PROPONENTS/DRAWBACKS OF PLANETESIMAL
THEORY
• IN 1905, AMERICAN GEOLOGIST THOMAS CHROWDER
CHAMBERLIN (1843-1928), AND ASTRONOMER FOREST RAY
MOULTON (1843-1928) PROPOSED THE PLANETESIMAL THEORY,
ARGUING THAT EARTH'S AGE WAS OLDER DUE TO ACCRETION
OF SOLID PARTICLES, WHICH WAS LATER SUBSTANTIATED BY
MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS.
• THIS THEORY IS NO LONGER ACCEPTED TODAY DUE TO
THE FACT THAT HOT MATERIAL FROM THE SUN EXPANDS AND
DISSIPATES RATHER THAN CONTRACT, IN ADDITION, THE FORCE
FROM THE PASSING STAR WILL PULL DUST AND GASES FAR
AWAY FROM THE SUN, THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO
TIDAL THEORY
• THE TIDAL THEORY
SUGGESTS THE SOLAR
SYSTEM FORMED FROM A
COLLISION BETWEEN A
PASSING STAR AND THE
SUN WHERE HOT GAS
FROM THE STAR
CONDENSED INTO PLANETS
INSTEAD OF
 EVENT ORDER OF TIDAL THEORY
1. A STAR PASSED NEAR THE SUN.
2. THE GRAVITATIONAL ACTION PULLED THE MASS
OF DUST AND GAS FROM THE REMAINING
NEBULA AROUND THE SUN.
3. THE GAS PARTICLES CONDENSED INTO LIQUID
AND SOLID STATES.
4. THE PARTICLES CLUMPED TO FORM COSMIC
BODIES OF DIFFERENT SIZES.
5. THESE BODIES FURTHER CONDENSED INTO
 PROPONENTS/DRAWBACKS OF TIDAL THEORY

• THE TIDAL THEORY WAS PROPOSED BY JAMES JEANS,

AN ENGLISH PHYSICIST AND ASTRONOMER, AND
HAROLD JEFFREYS, AN ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN
AND ASTRONOMER IN 1918, STATES THAT IN HIS
THEORY A STAR NARROWLY MISSED COLLIDING
WITH THE SUN AND IN IT'S PASSING DRAW AWAY
FROM THE SUN STELLER DELMIS THAT CONDENSED
TO FORM PLANETS.
• ONE PROBLEM OF THE TIDAL THEORY IS THAT THE
HOT MATERIAL FROM EITHER STAR CANNOT
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• BY: GROUP 1
• FRANCIS ANTHONY BATERBONIA
• ROSE MARIE TEJADA
• KRIS DIMPLE TABUDLONG
• PSYKHE ZHANE JURBAN
• NIÑA OBALDO
• AMATEO NIEL TIO
• STEVE PATRICK MARATA
• JOAQUIN MARCUS BACALTOS
• JOWI REIGN DONGIAPON
• NIKKOLAI IVAN INTO