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.
C) They reveal that the solar system once contained 10 planets. D) They reveal that the age of the solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years. E) They reveal that the early solar system consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium gas. D) They reveal that the age of the solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years.