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RefNo	TG/1/3/136-137
Level	Item
Title	Letter from Thomas Gold to Professor H Bondi, Surrey, England
Date	12 October 1965
Description	Says that 'Your two letters look very exciting to me. In a preliminary quick study of them it seems to me that all your assumptions are entirely reasonable. I am inclined to believe now that Rotators on all scales exist and perhaps are very common ... I am contemplating also the significance of Rotators to the origin of the solar system, for it may be that Rotators are a common prestar phase and their disruption such as by an external disturbance might lead to a formation of a central blob of low angular momentum and a surrounding disk. A disturbance from outside seems to be required in any case to make the 7 degrees between the plane of the solar system and the equator of the sun'. It looks as if Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi were publishing a paper as Gold asks Bondi how long the RAS takes to publish 'nowadays'. He then says that 'We could, of course, send it to the Ap.J or the Royal Society'.
Extent	2p
Format	Carbon copies
AccessStatus	Open
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