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4. 1926 Tidal hypothesis of jeans & Jeffrey's
Similar to Chamberlin’s theory that an intruding star ejects matter from the
proto sun.
Chamberlin, in his theory, had assumed the proto sun to be initially as a
cold body whereas the Tidal theory assumes the proto sun to be hot and
incandescent.
According to Tidal theory, the matter ejected are not randomly thrown dust,
gases, planetesimal.