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You know, we weren't there and nobody saw it. You would have thought somebody would have recorded it.....

But that's the current theory; that a current of space dust got a little thicker in one part than in other parts, and the entire cloud's mass caused enough gravity to begin pulling everything nearby into the center. The space dust and stray gas was mostly hydrogen, because hydrogen is the most common element in the universe (which we know from observations, and our cosmological theories are based on this) as well as some stray helium, iron, carbon, lead, gold and every other element from #1 hydrogen to #92 uranium. Most of the helium and hydrogen fell to the center, while the heavier "metal" elements were distributed throughout the condensing nebula.

The metals, from lithium up to uranium, were formed long before when they were parts of giant stars that exploded in supernova explosions. Some of the mass in the core of the giant star would have been crushed into neutron stars or black holes, but during the moment of the explosion itself, heavy atoms were crushed into even HEAVIER atoms, creating the entire Periodic Table of elements. We know that these atoms of metals such as gold and silicon and iron and Mercury and everything else became parts of the various planets such as the Earth and Mars.

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