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nebular hypothesis

 
Dictionary: nebular hypothesis

n.
A hypothesis concerning the origin of the solar system according to which a rotating nebula cooled and contracted, throwing off rings of matter that contracted into the planets and their moons, while the great mass of the condensing nebula became the sun.


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Meaning #1: the theory that the solar system evolved from a hot gaseous nebula


 
 

 

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