Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 303
of dou-ble nebula; by aprocess of divisionfissionthe proto-zoans, and that theirorbits were origin-ally nearly circular.According to DSeethe average eccen-tricity is about 0.45,while in the plane-tary system the ave-rage eccentricity isonly 0.03S9, or one twelfth of that found among bi-nary stars.… … aCen&uw, ORBIT OF ALPHA CENTAURI(Computed and projected by Dr See) The Cosmogony 251 These eminent mathematicians have substantiallyproved that it is possible for a rotating nebula tobreak up, under its own contraction, into an hour-glass figure exactly resembling the double nebulae ob-served…
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