Word: angular
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Later astronomers abandoned the nebular hypothesis. They found two things wrong with it: 1) it was unlikely that the rings would gather into planets; 2) the "angular momentum" was wrong. Angular momentum can be roughly defined as the amount of rotation in a system. In the solar system the planets have about 98% of the angular momentum, but only one-seventh of 1% of the solar system's mass, the rest being in the sun. The Laplace theory could not account for this discrepancy. It seemed more likely that there had been interference from outside...
...Protestant was angular, deep-voiced, intense Dr. Richard Roberts. Presbyterian theologian and onetime moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Catholic was a famed convert, bespectacled, dynamic, firm-jawed Rev. William Edwin Orchard of London. To bring the two together for a series of four joint lectures, the sponsors of Yale's University Christian Conference had had to obtain the permission of Bishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe of Hartford (in whose diocese New Haven lies), and Arthur Cardinal Kinsley of London, Father Orchard's superior...