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PLANETESIMAL HYPOTHESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(cosmology) the theory that the solar system was formed by the gravitational accumulation of planetesimals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("planetesimal hypothesis" is a kind of...):
scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)
Domain category:
cosmogeny; cosmogony; cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)
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