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Science 14 June 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3572, pp. 1208 - 1211
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3572.1208
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Planets and Comets: Role of Crystal Growth in Their Formation

Bertram Donn 1 and Gerald W. Sears 2

1 Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, Maryland
2 Molecular Physics Laboratory, General Dynamics, Electronics, Rochester, New York

The application of crystal growth theory to the formation of smoke particles from the primordial solar nebula indicates that solid particles with filamentary structures would form. Such particles would facilitate successive aggregation into planets, comets, and asteroids. The difficulties associated with the aggregation of spherical smoke particles would thus be avoided.


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