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GEO 100 Chapter 1 Notes Earth’s Place in the Universe Origin of the Solar System - Formation of the Sun and Planets  o Planetesimals and the Nebular Process o The enveloping disk of gas and dust forms grains that collide and clump together into small chunks or planetesimals o The terrestrial planets build up by multiple collisions and accretion of planetesim

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Moons of Saturn - Saturn’s moon, Titan, is Saturn’s largest moon and the second-largest moon in the solar system. o The only moon known to have an atmosphere (1.5 times as dense as Earth’s atmosphere). Uranus and Neptune both contain methane, water vapor and ammonia in addition to hydrogen and helium. - They are gas giants, but smaller than either Jupiter or S

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