Sunday, October 6, 2013

How Earth and other planets Were formed



Thousands of years after the sun was born, dust swarmed around the sun. These rock particles started to collect together, then forming rocks. These rocks form boulders, boulders form bigger boulders then they get big enough to have its own gravity, then sucks in rocks and dust, then finally the planets were formed, but there were hundreds of planets back then the planets had to survive a demolition derby. Planets hitting each other was a daily thing. Meanwhile earth was a molten ball of lava. Meteorites rained from the sky. the nickel in side the meteorites was heavier than the lava so it sank to make the core of Earth. Other planets kept on crashing into each other for thousands of years. Then things started slowing down. Impacts became less often. Earth started cooling down, and the surface lava became a thick crust. But then a planet the size of mars hit earth. Causing debree to fly into space and form a ring. The pieces in the ring clumped together to form the moon. At this time the planets we see today were the surviving planets all the rest turned into asteroids, and comets , and moons. Some scientists say that there was another major planet thousands of years ago. There evidence was traces a lithium in the sun. Stars usually don't have lithium so some people believe that a planet bigger then Jupiter, that was made of lithium crashed into the sun and was completely destroyed. After the battle of worlds, Earth grew volcanoes the volcanoes pumped gasses such as nitrogen and carbon dioxide , and water particles. Meteorites brought small water particles that formed puddles. This went on for a long time. Earths orbit was not the same. at one point earth froze into a giant ice age. This time was also known as snowball Earth. After the ice age volcanoes kept erupting and something was happening to earth under the seas. Plants formed during the last years of the ice age. These plants produced oxygen witch eventually brought life.

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