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Old October 19th 08, 11:48 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Saul Levy Saul Levy is offline
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Default How the gas Giants planets gathered their gas at formation

The same way the light elements collected there, Mitch.

Saul Levy


On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:12:14 -0700 (PDT), BURT
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On Oct 6, 11:53*am, Double-A wrote:
On Oct 4, 7:04*pm, ah wrote:


I think all elements were there in the beginning in the spiralling
cloud of dust andgasout of which the Earth and other planets
formes. *The Earth had lots ofgasin the biggining, but being so
close to the Sun, lost much of it over time due to the solar wind and
the Earth's relatively modest gravity. * However, its magnetic field
did help it keep as much atmosphere as it has.

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How did the heavy elements all gather in the solar plane?

Mitch Raemsch