Origin of the Solar System
Chap. 9-19 in Seeds are covered by
- Ast 105: The Milky Way
- Ast 102: Black Holes, Time Warps, and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe
- These courses will explore other aspects of origins
- origin of the Universe
- origins of the chemical elements
- origins of galaxies
- origins of the stars in galaxies
Briefly
- Origin of chemical elements
- Big Bang
- all matter/energy concentrated and it explodes
- First few minutes, energy converted to matter
- mostly protons and electrons (i.e. H atoms)
- ~ 10% (25 % of mass) converted to He