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Q: Why is the solar nebula theory a theory rather than a hypothesis?
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Who invented the Solar Nebula Hypothesis?

Emanuel Swedenborg


What theory most likely explaines how the moon was formed?

I think the solar nebula theory.


What theory of birth of the solar system which involves a passing star pulling dust and debris from the forming sun?

No, nobody uses the term "solar galactic hypothesis". You may be referring to a "solar nebula", in which a cloud of gas and dust collapses under its internal gravity to form a star and perhaps some planets.


What is the difference in between nebula and solar nebula?

A solar nebula is related to the formation of our Solar System, any other nebula is just a nebula.


What do you call a large cloud of gas and dust such as the one that formed our solar system?

That is called an accretion disk or a proto-Solar system.


What is the key ingredient in the modern condensation theory of the solar system's origin that was missing or unknown in the nebula theory?

Interstellar dust


The solar nebula was 98?

the solar nebula was 98% hydrogen and helium gas


What observation made of other stars seems to suggest the solar nebula hypothesis is correct?

young stars are found to have hot disks that surround them.


What is the Tidal theory about the origin of the earth?

One theory is the Big Bang - after that, matter, including Earth, formed inside a solar nebula which later became our Sun.


What causes a solar nebula to initially begin to form a solar?

An explosion from outside the nebula


How was your solar system produced?

The solar system was produced by solar nebula. The nebula was disrupted by an unknow substance in the air.


What causes a solar nebula initially begin to form a solar system?

An explosion from outside the nebula