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Angular Momentum of the Solar System

Nature volume 158, page 874 (1946)Cite this article

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ONE of the main difficulties to be met by any theory about the origin of the solar system is the difficulty of accounting for the present distribution of its angular momentum.

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HAAR, D. Angular Momentum of the Solar System. Nature 158, 874 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158874a0

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