Planetesimal

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2190w&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2190. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Asteroids

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In cosmogony, a planetesimal is one of numerous solid bodies of sub-planetary size orbiting the SUN (or another star), from which planets may accumulate. The term was coined near the beginning of the twentieth century by T C Chamberlin and F Moulton, who developed the `planetesimal hypothesis' for the origin of the SOLAR SYSTEM. In their original concept, solid particles condensed from matter eje...

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