Which of the following statements about the formation of the solar system is not accepted as true? The solar system began from a spinning cloud of dust and gas. The center of the early solar system was so hot, only rocky planets were able to sustain the heat. Gravity pulled clumps of dust and gas together which eventually formed the planets. The sun began as a large rocky planet, but as clumps of matter kept getting pulled toward it by gravity, it became much larger and hotter.

The statement that is not accepted as true about the formation of the solar system is:<br /><br />"The sun began as a large rocky planet, but as clumps of matter kept getting pulled toward it by gravity, it became much larger and hotter."<br /><br />The accepted theory is that the sun began as a spinning cloud of dust and gas, which is known as the solar nebula. Over time, gravity pulled clumps of dust and gas together, forming the planets. The center of the early solar system was hot, but it was not so hot that only rocky planets could sustain the heat. Instead, the sun formed from the gravitational collapse of the solar nebula, and it became much larger and hotter as more matter was pulled toward it by gravity.