The Meteoric Theory of Nebulæ, &c

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Apr 1889

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Nature, Volume 39, Issue 1014, pp. 535-536 (1889).

Physics

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MY last letter in NATURE of March 7 (p. 436) substantially contended that there must be a certain limit to the rate of translatory motion possible to meteoric masses, beyond which they would be rapidly resolved into vapour and consequently be unable to maintain the weight of the heaped-up material constituting the nebula (supposed to be formed of meteorites). It appears tolerably evident that there must be such a limit as to size to which the system can apply, if a period anything like ``a few thousand years'' mentioned1 by Prof. G. H. Darwin is to be accorded to this stage of evolution. The doubt was expressed whether the size (or mass) of the original solar nebula was not past that limit, in view of the rate of translatory motion required, viz. 5½ kilometres per second in the mean.

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