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.
The solar system is in the Milky Way, the Milky Way is composed of about 150 Billion to 200 billion star sytems. The solar system is a very small part of the Milky way G â¦ alaxy. The solar system includes only our sun and the bits that orbit it, planets (and their moons), dwarf planets and asteroids.