planetismal

Updated: May 22, 2025

They may be regarded as infinitesimal planets, and so Chamberlain calls them 'planetismals. "The planetismal theory is a development of the meteoritic theory, and presents it in an especially attractive guise. It regards meteorites as very sparsely distributed through space, and gravity as powerless to collect them into dense groups.

Alfred Russel Wallace - Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation