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    Molecular Cloud: Contact Binary Arrokoth Planetesimal 67P

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    The Solar System formed 4.568 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a large molecular cloud. As the cloud collapsed, it formed a rotating protoplanetary disc around a hot, dense protostar at the center. The planets then formed by accretion from this disc, with dust and gas attracting each other and coalescing to form larger bodies like protoplanets. Over time, these either merged or were destroyed, leaving the current planets, dwarf planets, and other objects in the Solar System.

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    Molecular Cloud: Contact Binary Arrokoth Planetesimal 67P

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    The Solar System formed 4.568 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a large molecular cloud. As the cloud collapsed, it formed a rotating protoplanetary disc around a hot, dense protostar at the center. The planets then formed by accretion from this disc, with dust and gas attracting each other and coalescing to form larger bodies like protoplanets. Over time, these either merged or were destroyed, leaving the current planets, dwarf planets, and other objects in the Solar System.

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    The Solar System formed 4.568 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a large molecular cloud. As the cloud collapsed, it formed a rotating protoplanetary disc around a hot, dense protostar at the center. The planets then formed by accretion from this disc, with dust and gas attracting each other and coalescing to form larger bodies like protoplanets. Over time, these either merged or were destroyed, leaving the current planets, dwarf planets, and other objects in the Solar System.

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    Molecular Cloud: Contact Binary Arrokoth Planetesimal 67P

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    The Solar System formed 4.568 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a large molecular cloud. As the cloud collapsed, it formed a rotating protoplanetary disc around a hot, dense protostar at the center. The planets then formed by accretion from this disc, with dust and gas attracting each other and coalescing to form larger bodies like protoplanets. Over time, these either merged or were destroyed, leaving the current planets, dwarf planets, and other objects in the Solar System.

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    The Solar System formed 4.

    568 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a region within a


    large molecular cloud.[h] This initial cloud was likely several light-years across and probably birthed
    several stars.[43] As is typical of molecular clouds, this one consisted mostly of hydrogen, with some
    helium, and small amounts of heavier elements fused by previous generations of stars. As the region
    that would become the Solar System, known as the pre-solar nebula,[44] collapsed, conservation of
    angular momentum caused it to rotate faster. The centre, where most of the mass collected, became
    increasingly hotter than the surrounding disc.[43] As the contracting nebula rotated faster, it began to
    flatten into a protoplanetary disc with a diameter of roughly 200 AU[43] and a hot, dense protostar at
    the centre.[45][46] The planets formed by accretion from this disc,[47] in which dust and gas gravitationally
    attracted each other, coalescing to form ever larger bodies. Hundreds of protoplanets may have
    existed in the early Solar System, but they either merged or were destroyed, leaving the planets,
    dwarf planets, and leftover minor bodies.

    The geology of the contact binary object Arrokoth (nicknamed Ultima Thule), the first


    undisturbed planetesimal visited by a spacecraft, with comet 67P to scale. The eight subunits of the larger lobe,
    labeled ma to mh, are thought to have been its building blocks. The two lobes came together later, forming
    a contact binary. Objects such as Arrokoth are believed in turn to have formed protoplanets.[48]
    Due to their higher boiling points, only metals and silicates could exist in solid form in the warm inner
    Solar System close to the Sun, and these would eventually form the rocky planets of Mercury,
    Venus, Earth, and Mars. Because metallic elements only comprised a very small fraction of the solar
    nebula, the terrestrial planets could not grow very large. The giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
    and Neptune) formed further

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