Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 46
ty. Suppose, now, a stranger to approach a body in spacenear enough; it will inevitably raise tides in the othersmass, and if the approach be very close, the tides will beso great as to tear the body in pieces along the line dueto their action; that is, parts of the body will be sepa-rated from the… … n o n/ BIRTH OF A SOLAR SYSTEM 25 increased speed of rotation due to contraction upon it-self, parts of its periphery should be shed continuallyand a pinwheel of matter, not a two-armed spiral, bethrown off. If explosion were the disintegrating cause,disruption would occur unsymmetrically in one or…
Cosmogony
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