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| What happens to a very large dieing star? |
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| A dieing star condenses into some of the most dense elements in the galaxy, such as platinum until it explodes. |
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A Supernova is the explosion that comes at the end of the cycle of a
very large dieing star, one of the most powerful explosions in the Universe. |
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| After a Supernova, what is created in its place? |
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| A new star with orbiting dust clouds that later create the planets. Many of the planets do not survive the early solarsystem, such as Thia, the fifth planet. |
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| What is the first step to form astroids? |
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| "Cosmic" dust clouds condense when being struck by the shock waves that come from a Supernova nearby. |
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What is the same type of
everyday happening that helped the dust in the "cosmic" dust clouds stick together when condensing? |
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After the dust in "cosmic" dust clouds stick to form small rocks, what property helped the rocks
stick together? |
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True or False:
The bigger something is, the stronger the gravity. |
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| When an astroid gets bigger from rock building up, it's usually a strange shape. What happens to it when it's size gets big enough and its gravatational pull gets strong enough? |
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Its own gravity pulls into itself, changing its shape to a circle or sometimes a slight oval, like Earth.
At this point, it's usually about the size of Earth's moon. |
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| When Earth got about the size that it is today, what catastrophic event occured? |
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| The "fifth planet that din't survive", Thia, smashed into Earth, sending bits of Earth and Thia into orbit around Earth temporarily. |
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| The debris orbiting Earth from Thia's collision collected to form what? |
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| What happened to Earth's two moons? |
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| They collided, the larger moon practically swallowing the smaller moon, and formed one large moon, the one we see in the night skies today. |
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True or False:
Earth was a molten world of lava and volcanoes before and after Thia's collision with Earth. |
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| False: before the collision, Earth's crust was solid and very desert-like. |
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| After Earth's molten crust sank and formed Earth's core, what other planet did it resemle? |
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True or False:
The water on Earth was created here. |
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False: water came from astroids in the Astroid Belt in the outer solarsystem, where ice could stay without melting. The astroids that
rained on Earth brought water and created the oceans, and etc. |
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