• Question: what planet formed first?

    Asked by tilly? to Peter, Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda on 16 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Lucy2004simmons.
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      Peter Boorman answered on 16 Nov 2016:

      Hi Tilly,

      That’s a tricky question! I’m not really sure, but I guess if the planets formed from a disc of matter (similar to the discs surrounding planets like Saturn), then maybe the innermost regions to the Sun formed first, for example Mercury??

      Peter

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