Dive into the wild story of how Jupiter shook things up and Saturn saved the day in our solar system’s epic origin tale.

Jupiter the Bully and Saturn the Saviour - How the Solar Sytem Formed

In this talk, I describe how the planets formed from dust in the protoplanetary disc at the time the Sun formed, through rocks, planetesimals, proto-planets and finally into fully formed planets. I introduce a number of up-to-date theories to explain the formation of the system, including the Grand Tack and the Nice Model. Regular animations allow the listener to understand current concepts as to how our solar system formed.

Our speaker Dr David Temperley is an amateur astronomer, enthused by finding out how the universe works.He is a medical doctor, a consultant radiologist and has been interested in astronomy since childhood. He is enthused by developing an understanding of how the universe works, whether it is our solar system or the Big Bang and cosmology. Over the last few years he has undertaken a number of online astronomy courses, and have developed a several talks which I enjoy delivering to local astronomy clubs.

This hybrid meeting is also available to view via Zoom

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