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O. J. SCHMIDT has a paper with this title in Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de L'Académie des Sciences de L'URSS. (45, No. 6; 1944), in which he propounds a new theory of the origin of the planetary system. At the basis of the theory there are two fundamental facts—the rotation of the Galaxy and the presence near its central plane of large masses of obscuring matter. During its motion round the centre of gravity of the Galaxy, the sun crossed a dark cloud of dust and meteorites and captured portions of this, compelling the particles to revolve around its centre. In the course of time these captured particles united into larger formations, thus producing the planets.
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A Meteoric Theory of the Origin of the Earth and Planets. Nature 156, 185 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156185a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156185a0