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centre. These themselves were supposed
to condense into the nucleus for a rotating
planet, which might, in contracting, again
throw off rings to form satellites. The spec-
ulation can be put in a really attractive
form, but is in direct opposition to many
of the actual facts; and so long as it is not
favoured by those who wish to maintain the
position of astronomy as the most exact of
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