| Thus, meteorites represent a fossil record of the early conditions of the solar nebula. |
| Comets formed in the outer regions of the solar nebula where it was cold enough for volatile ices to condense. |
| The inner planets all formed from the disk of gas and dust, the solar nebula, that surrounded our young sun. |
| Jupiter's core formed rapidly relative to the rate at which gas was lost from the solar nebula. |
| The composition of Phoebe should reflect the composition of the region of the solar nebula where it formed. |
| Under its own gravitational attraction, the cloud collapsed into a rotating disk of matter, called the solar nebula. |
