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When solar system planets formed from stellar dust, do we assume that said dust was uniform in composition and merely position, solar dynamics and interplanetary dynamics such as collisions (formation of Moon) led to the differences in chemical composition?

For example, it's the outer planets that are gas giants. Venus composition doesn't seem too different from Earth but it's much closer to Sol, so it's more exposed with much more energy absorbed etc.



> When solar system planets formed from stellar dust, do we assume that said dust was uniform in composition and merely position, solar dynamics and interplanetary dynamics such as collisions (formation of Moon) led to the differences in chemical composition?

That's the simplest assumption.




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