Comments on ‘the origin of the Earth—Moon system’

✍ Scribed by P. Savić; G. Teleki

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 334 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-0794
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00057606

✦ Synopsis

The main points are presented of a new hypothesis of the origin of the Earth-Moon system, developed on the basis of SaviC's (1961) theory of the origin of rotation of celestial bodies. The cooling off and contraction due to gravitational attraction on vast particle systems, with the pushing out of electrons from atom shells result in a continually increasing density. Depending on the amount of mass, this pushing out can lead to the expulsion of electrons and the creation of a magnetic field by which a rotational motion is brought about. These conditions are satisfied for the Earth's mass and all larger masses. If the Earth and the Moon formed a unique body, the protoplanet, then once rotational motion had begun, the primeval spherical,body must have taken the shape of a large Jacobi ellipsoid. New condensation followed, however no longer solely around the centre of the protoplanet, but also along the edge of the ellipsoid, the process leading to the creation of the dual Earth-Moon system.