Show claims claim S moon Is child of the earth scientist says it was part of new zealand london the secret secretory nry of the boynt society in ills his discourse at tile royal institution lias has made another notable contribution to astronomical theory according to the well known nebular hypothesis of laplace it wits supposed that tile the solar system was originally a very extended rare rarefied fled gaseous inasi innon what we now call it a nebula though laplace lind had no knowledge of the actual existence of nebulae and mat us its it contracted through gravitation it threw off successive rings of matter from its edge which ultimately condensed into the lie planets tills theory has been under grave suspicion for some time and doctor jenns gave what appears to be conclusive elusive reasons for finally rejecting it lie ile has previously shown that stars tire are probably born in it manner very similar to that imagined by laplace but tit smaller bodies like the planets ts require quite a different explanation A discussion of the tha various possibilities bili ties leads to the conclusion that so far as our present knowledge goes there Is only one method left for their origin and that Is the disturbance of tit the sun in its infancy by the close approach of another sun the gravitation attraction of the visitor would draw matter out of the sun by tidal action and this matter would finally condense into planets such an event would bo be exceedingly rare in the history of the universe owing to the great distances sepal separating ratin 11 the stars from froin one another and this consideration coupled with the fact vint that at least half of the stars appear to be double or multiple suns makes it very probable that our solar system Is almost a unique structure science Is tending to the conviction that our earth may bo be the only inhabited body in space torn away in south prof W ji II 11 pickering lins has been extending ills tudy study of tile the mode in which the moon wits was separated from the earth and lie he believes that when that monstrous birth ibok place 7 00 at million milion 11 reals ago the earth was not liquid but ut solid arld had n period of rotation it lay of three to four hours the moon tore itself away in the lie south probably the part parl of new zealand wits was the lust last point of contact then three quarters of tile the earths surface to n depth of 85 35 trifles miles was carried away in a trailing mass of now new zealand was just saved from froin a region by the straits of gibraltar diametrically opposite another piece of the lie earths art its surface a stretching out into the atlantic almost necessarily followed the rest and a ting ring of debris surrounding the earth and analogous to the rings of saturn was thus formed the portion torn from tile the atlantic wits was possibly some 1000 miles in dl diameter ameter |