4.3—Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth

Billowing clouds of matter spun around and around our young Sun, gradually forming just about everything in our Solar System—from meteors and asteroids to all the planets and moons. One planet in particular would enable the creation of even more remarkable complexity. Why? How did that happen?Leftovers usually aren’t all that interesting or important. The leftovers that circled our Sun just after