Abstract
The development of the Earth’s and planets formation theory over 70 years is considered with a special focus on the history of development of this theory at the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPE RAS) where this direction of research was founded by Otto Schmidt. The state of the art of the theory is outlined. In particular, the planetesimals formation problem currently belonging to the key unsolved issues in the theory of planet formation is discussed. Recent results of the studies aimed at solving this problem at IPE RAS are presented.
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