Cosmic Queries – Cool Worlds with David Kipping
StarTalk Radio
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The Origins of the Solar System
Since some planets in our solar system have higher concentrations of certain elements, iron on Mars, for example, does that suggest our original solar nebula once flattened by a centrifugal force may have been ring-like with bands of certain elements. That would mean that different places within the ring would coalesce to form a planet and have a very different concentration from other places in the disk. So it'd be like, look up, why for what? All right, Chuck, keep him coming.
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