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j_lindgaard@windstream.net - 28 Feb 2007 03:41 GMT

Just curious.
Since the sun has 3 rotations and 3 observable magnetic lines, is it
possible that because of its' size that the planets could have been
formed by the behavior of the sun and how it affects the space around
it ?
Simply put, the suns core behavior used non-local behavior to help
form the planets in the beginning ?

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Scott Miller - 28 Feb 2007 11:20 GMT

> Just curious.
> Since the sun has 3 rotations and 3 observable magnetic lines, is it
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> Simply put, the suns core behavior used non-local behavior to help
> form the planets in the beginning ?

Not sure what your initial statement means. The Sun is a differential
rotator, rotating at different speeds at different latitudes. And, the
magnetic field is not broken down into different parts.

As to the formation of planets around the Sun, if observation of star
forming regions are interpreted correctly as being protoplanetary disks,
then likely the Sun had one of those two. Being a distribution of heavy
elements and hydrogen and helium, there could have been a separation of
these due to heating from the Sun such that heavy elements were
available for making the inner planets as these could condense at higher
temperatures. Lower temperatures at greater distances allowed the
condensation of volitiles and hydrogen and helium, which would be
available for making planets at those greater distances.

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