1) Briefly explain how the Earth’s Moon formed, per the Nebula Hypothesis demonstrated in the online animation of our online course and discussed in our text book in the section of how our the solar system formed. (6 points). The moon formed with the origin of the solar system 5 billion years ago, when a large amount of gas and dust, a nebula, collapsed in of itself by the sheer force of gravity, forming what we call our nearest star, the sun (Chernicoff Whitney 2007, p. 15). The moon was formed as part of the process of particles Continue reading...