Saturday, November 21, 2009
Saturn Accretion
The first step in Saturn's formation is it was first a solar nebula about 4.6 billion years ago.Saturn in this state was nothing but a huge cloud of dust and cold gas which was distributed by colliding with another cloud or the shockwaves of a supernova. After this stage the cloud compressed down forming Saturn's protostar. Next the ices from the protostar combined and clumped together to form larger and larger planetesimals. Then these planetesimals formed in a planet of saturn but not the one we know today. It was first a protoplanet before it got its rings. Particles from a moon and space debris collided to go around Saturn to form its rings and the planet Saturn today was born. Accretion is the formation of when a nebula forms into a planet.
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I enjoyed the fact that it was very detailed which is a very good thing. I also liked the fact that it was pretty good grammer.A problem that I had was that it was too long. I felt that it needed to be shorter. But that is a pretty good thing too, but shorten a little bit ok? I want to know more about your planet. How and when was it discovered? I would like to no more about the planet itself if you could tell me more about it.
ReplyDeleteI do have info about the discoverer. the date is unknown though
ReplyDeleteok. other wise, great job!
ReplyDeletethe discoverer is on a seperate blog post
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