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The Solar System

Our neighborhood from the Sun to the Oort cloud: formation 4.6 billion years ago from a collapsing nebula, the frost line that split rocky and giant planets, a tour of the planets, asteroid and Kuiper belts, Kepler's laws, and why Pluto was reclassified.

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The Universe: How the Solar System Was Born (S6, E3) | Full Episode | History HISTORY · 44 min
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Key idea
Prereqs: Gravity & orbits. Next: Stars & how they die; Exoplanets & life. Sources: NASA Solar System Exploration; IAU 2006 planet definition; Kepler's laws (1609–1619).
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