This caused a feud with Forest Moulton, who co-developed the planetesimal hypothesis.
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He is noted for being a proponent, along with Thomas Chamberlin, of the Chamberlin Moulton planetesimal hypothesis that the planets coalesced from smaller bodies they termed planetesimals.
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His planetesimal hypothesis of planet formation is still widely accepted among astronomers, although alternative theories exist ( such as the gravitational fragmentation of the protoplanetary disk directly into planets ).
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(cosmology) the theory that the solar system was formed by the gravitational accumulation of planetesimals
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