planetesimal hypothesis

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   (cosmology) the theory that the solar system was formed by the gravitational accumulation of planetesimals

   Broaderscientific theory

   cosmology

Questions about planetesimal hypothesis

What does planetesimal hypothesis mean?

planetesimal hypothesis means "(cosmology) the theory that the solar system was formed by the gravitational accumulation of planetesimals".

Is planetesimal hypothesis a common word?

planetesimal hypothesis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.