Travel Guide to the Outer Solar System

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In the following sections you will explore the outer reaches of our Solar System. While it is easy to get lost in the vast amount of "information" now available it will be important to try and summarize what you know with a few broad concepts. These concepts include:

• The role that temperature played in the early history of the Solar Nebula
• The role of water in the formation of the solar system
• How interactions between bodies in the early solar system have helped shape the solar system of today.

Practice

1. Review Chapter 19 and explain why it makes sense that we can have both Earth-like and Jupiter like planets in the same system. What is the most important factor that determines whether a planet will be Terrestrial or Jovian?