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Olbers's Planetary Explosion Hypothesis: Genesis and Early Nineteenth-Century Interpretations

“…Again in a more recent letter, Dr. Olbers repeats this opinion and writes: "The same orbital time of Pallas and Ceres, the positions of these paths with each other, the proximity of same in the descending node of the path of Pallas on that of Ceres; this makes it all the more probable for me that both belong together, and again and again, I return to the conjecture which I have expressed to you, that both are perhaps pieces and rubble of a former large planet." 11 …”