'The Origin of the Solar System' - A view on how different sorts of planets and other bodies came to be where they are.
The areas discussed include:
| What Theories Need to Address | Angular momentum problem; Rocky planets; Giant planets; Asteroids; Kuiper belt; Oort cloud; etc |
| Before the Solar System | Where the dust comes from; Composition of solar dust cloud |
| Historical Theories | Kant, Laplace; Jeans, Jeffreys; Accretion; Woolfson model; Condensation model |
| The Initial Process as Accepted Today | Disc formation; T Tauri; Beta Pictoris |
| Formation of Planets | The ice line; What we used to think |
| Jupiter | Where did it form; The Grand Tack; The Grand Attack; STIPs; Inner solar system |
| Further Evolution | The Nice-2 model; The late bombardment |
| The Planets as we see them | Mercury to Neptune |
| Satellites | Earth - Moon formation theories; Mars; Major planets; Regular and irregular satellites |
| Other Objects | Asteroids; Kuiper Belt Objects; The Oort Cloud |
| Planet 9 | The Sedna problem; The Sun's axial tilt |
| Other details | Water on Earth; The Angular Momentum Problem |
| Woolfson Theory: Cold Encounter | Capture Process |
| Gas Giant Collision | The Inner Planets; Other Bodies; Isotope Problems |