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Jan 1932
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1932phrv...39..311g&link_type=abstract
Physical Review, vol. 39, Issue 2, pp. 311-319
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A new account of the formation of the solar system, based on the rotational evolution of a single star, is given which describes the system in some detail and avoids the major difficulties encountered by earlier investigators. Electromagnetic effects have been shown by the author to permit the angular velocity of a star to increase until the star breaks into two components of comparable mass. The component stars are thermally asymmetrical and momentum is radiated more rapidly from the hot face than from the cool. This important new effect, which is quantitatively satisfactory, adds kinetic energy and angular momentum to the companion stars (in a manner analogous to the mechanism of a skyrocket) and may operate to separate the stars to infinity. Applying this to the solar system, the parent semiliquid sun is supposed to have divided and lost its companion. While each companion was inside the Roche limit of the other centrifugal and tidal forces broke off the planets. These in turn immediately broke up and formed the planetary satellites. Tides and tidal couples transferred the momentum of axial spin of the two component stars to that of orbital momentum, while the planets because of their small size largely escaped the effects of this process. Planetary rotations play an important role in the theory. The account replaces the earlier improbable and "accidental" theory by a systematic evolutionary process which is probably quite common in the Universe.
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