To provide defense against these sporadic attacks, the early settlers erected a series of forts in the area. Wood's Fort guarded the Forks-of-the-River just downstream from Newport, and McCoy's Fort and Whitson's Fort defended the area to the south.
The Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant interstellar molecular cloud. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun, with most of the remaining mass contained in Jupiter.
Mark United States. January 3, 2014. So, if the sun (4.5 billion years old) has gone around the galactic center 20 times in its life and we know that the galaxy is around 13.2 billion years old, that means that the galaxy hasnât really âspunâ that many times.