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IN a recent communication1, Dr. M. M. Woolfson has outlined a model to account for the origin of the solar system. In common with many earlier hypotheses2, he postulates an interaction between the primitive Sun and a second star. By gravitational interactions he proposes that the Sun lost a large amount of surface matter by the breaking away of tidal bulges. This matter is envisaged to have been lost in a series of isolated events and the resulting separate sections gave rise to a planet.
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BRIGGS, M. Origin of the Solar System. Nature 187, 1102–1103 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1871102a0
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