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144 pages of results. 581. "Mechanics Bears Witness" [Journals] [Pensee]
... reach a conclusive position. He even suggested as a suitable example Velikovsky's arguments regarding electrical charges on the Sun and in the planetary system. This seems to be eminently appropriate firstly because Velikovsky has contended that violent and incessant electrical discharges occurred during the cataclysmic events he describes; his "tremendous spark springing forth at the nearest approach" of a comet to the Earth certainly requires strong electric charges on one or both bodies (Velikovsky, 1950, Delta edition, p. 85). Velikovsky has, moreover, repeatedly urged astronomers to beware of always omitting electromagnetic effects from their calculations of celestial mechanics. It is therefore my purpose here to examine in an elementary manner some questions of ...
582. Electricity in Astronomy, 1847 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , pp. 325-331. Article by S. William Ruskin, headed When London viewed the southern skies: The reception of Sir John Herschel's Cape Results. In the course of a long and very highly rated paper on his astronomical observations, published 1847, Sir John Herschel suggested that the rapid changes in the apparent shape and size of Halley's comet, which he had been observing, could be due to electric charge on the sun. The point was picked upon by two (out of eight) of his reviewers, as follows: Sir David Brewster, writing in North British Review, commented'...rather than admit electricity as an agent residing in every sun and ...
583. Cometary Jets [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume VI, Number 5 Home | Issue Contents Cometary Jets Tania ta Maria The encounter between NASA's Stardust spacecraft and Comet Wild 2 has resulted in the best cometary images ever taken. Details of the comet's surface have revealed themselves as never before. Does the surface consist of dirty snow, as has for long been theorized? Hardly. What has come to light is a terrain that is dominated by towering pinnacles over 300 feet high, craters reaching more than 400 feet deep, and steep-rising cliffs. As Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, Seattle, announced: "We thought Comet Wild 2 would be like a dirty, black, fluffy snowball. ...
584. The Devil's Advocate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... at will in a shorter period than these men do. The "gods" fly hither and yon at your bidding. Of course you can then explain all that is asked about nature and mankind. Even if, as seems possible, several catastrophes caused by external encounters have devastated the globe, it is more likely that one or more comets, coursing thru the solar system, have inflicted the damage and terrorized the human mind, than it is that the planets, each in turn, have done this work. This theory would allow you to keep the planets in their present location into the indeterminate long past. It would let you give up your attempt to destroy what ...
585. Stones Suspended In The Air, Part 1 Venus Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... meteorites of the cometary train of the days of Exodus remained in the celestial sphere for about fifty years, falling in the days of Joshua, in the valley of Beth-horon, on the same forenoon when the sun and the moon stood still for the length of a full day. The language of the Talmud and Midrash suggests that the same comet returned after some fifty years. Once more it passed very close to the earth. This time it did not reverse the poles of the earth, but kept the terrestrial axis tilted for a considerable length of time. Again the world was, in the language of the rabbis, "consumed in the whirlwind," "and all ...
586. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of the mythical lost city. This one also uses the catastrophic crustal displacement theories of Charles Hapgood and concludes that there was indeed a race of intelligent seafarers about 12,000 years ago - and the reason no evidence has yet been found is that it is hidden under the ice in Antarctica. Doomsday is almost here Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets by Duncan Steel (John Wiley, 1995, £16 99). Since the Jupiter impacts, the possibility of a similar happening on Earth is being taken very seriously by some. The author, an Australian astronomer, assesses the risks and the damage potential and thinks a world wide observation network and some clever weapons use could yet ...
587. ADS Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... 32, #08.08 The problem of Saturn's massive and youthful rings is well-know: Saturn's ring system (especially its A ring) could not survive for longer 100 millions years. This implies that the rings seem to have resulted from a very unlikely event, perhaps the destruction of a moon impact cometary or tidal disruption of a large comet passing within Saturn's Roche radius. I present another scenario of formation and evolution rings in the light of the dynamics of Prometheus-Pandora, Saturn's inner satellite pair. These moons have resonances with the rings, pull angular momentum out of the rings and therefore evolve outward. This effect is particulary rapid because Prometheus (larger and closer to the rings ...
588. An Extraterrestrial Hypothesis [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1998:1 (June 1998) Home | Issue Contents An Extraterrestrial Hypothesis 29 January 1998 Australo-Asian tektites and a global disaster of about 10,000 years BP, caused by collision of the Earth with a comet. E. P. Izokh*. GEOLOGIYA I GEOFIZIKA, 1997, Vol.38, No.3 , pp.628-660 [in Russian]. *Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Division, Joint Institute of Geological Geophysics & Mineralogy, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. About 10,000 years ago, at the Pleistocene-Holocene border, some important events occurred: the glaciation stopped abruptly; the sea level elevated, and quick ( ...
589. Testing Juergens' 'electric sun' theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... puts the heliopause at 18 billion km from the Sun, i.e . 12 times more distant than Saturn, or 120 AU! Voyager 1 is expected to reach it in the year 2010. This makes the heliosphere more than an order of magnitude larger than expected but a purely mechanical explanation does not work for the bloated comas of comets either. How can an object a few kilometres across entrain a coma millions of km in diameter? The direct answer to Mr Davis' question is that no cathode dark space has been encountered yet. However, there is a phenomenon which might be attributable to a cathode drop at the heliopause: Anomalous Cosmic Rays (ACRs). ...
590. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... as all the other historical factors that point to the general validity of their conclusion. David Talbott, Dwardu Cardona, and Ev Cochrane, who have been either unsupportive or deeply critical of these greatly lowered chronologies, have raised the issue of convergence and cross-reference of evidence from numerous sources with regard to Venus having been observed as a "great comet" in ancient times.4 Ev Cochrane asks the pertinent question: "rather than confront the issue of 3 William H. Stiebing, Jr., "Velikovsky's Historical Revisions," The Universe and Its Origins, S.F . Singer, ed. (NY 1990), p. 57 4 David Talbott, "The ...
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