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THE observational astronomer generally feels only an indirect interest in the problem of how our earth and its companion planets came into being; his telescope can give him no direct information on the subject, since such planets as other suns may possess are too small and too distant to be observed. If every star in the sky were suddenly to give birth to planets we should in all probability remain unaware that anything was happening.
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JEANS, J. The Origin of the Solar System*. Nature 128, 432–435 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128432a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128432a0
