Solar Nebula Hypothesis (#3)

What will be an ideal response?


> All the nebula's individual dust particles began to stick together and form larger bodies, called
planetesimals.
> The planetesimals were young objects that were not yet large enough to be called planets. But they continued to grow over millions of years, gradually getting bigger and bigger.

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