As you will read in many children’s books, the current theory is that the Solar System began as large rotating cloud of gas that slowly collapsed under the force of it’s own gravity to form the large objects that are we now find in our solar system: the Sun and it’s satellites (planets, asteroids, comets). The [...]
As you will read in many children’s books, the current theory is that the Solar System began as large rotating cloud of gas that slowly collapsed under the force of it’s own gravity to form the large objects that are we now find in our solar system: the Sun and it’s satellites (planets, asteroids, comets).
The Earth was one of the objects that formed out of the flying debris that was the early solar system, and the moon is thought to have broken off from the Earth in a collision at some early point in its development. It is believed that the orbit of the moon around the Earth provides a stabalising effect on the Earth’s rotation and thus climate.