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.
View Full Document. Astro 3- Chapter 11 43 terms by amanile According to modern science, approximately how old is the Sun? 4 1/2 billion years. The Sun is the same age as the rest of our solar system, which from earlier chapters is 4 Â½ billion years. The Sun will exhaust its nuclear fuel in about ______. 5 billion years.