• Question: how did earth reach the solar system

    Asked by anon-174881 to Tim on 13 Jun 2018.
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      Tim Craig answered on 13 Jun 2018:


      Earth has only ever existed as part of the Solar system – it didn’t come here from outside. The solar system formed from a large cloud of gas and dust, called the Solar Nebula. Much of this collapsed together into our Sun, but what was left over gradually accumulate into the planets and moons of our solar system, including our very own Earth.

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