Solar system - Exoplanets, Formation, Exploration

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Introduction & Top Questions
Composition of the solar system
- Orbits
- Planets and their moons
- Asteroids and comets
- The interplanetary medium
Origin of the solar system
- Early scientific theories
  - The Kant-Laplace nebular hypothesis
  - Twentieth-century developments
- Modern ideas
  - Formation of the solar nebula
  - Differentiation into inner and outer planets
  - Later stages of planetary accretion
  - Formation of the outer planets and their moons
  - The small bodies
  - Formation of ring systems
  - Solution to the angular momentum puzzle
- Studies of other solar systems

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