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177 pages of results. 511. Altering the Solar System - Reorbiting Venus [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... earth. "Close" isn't good enough, the two planets would "soon" drift relative to each other in such a way to make a very close pass. And even if you did get it into exactly the right spot, the other planets are always perturbing things, as well as the Earth constantly doing its dance with the Moon, etc. -Mike From: Ian Tresman, ian@knowledge.co.uk Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 21:43:10 GMT Doesn't Uranus have two satellite in nearly the same orbit: as one catches up with the other, they swap orbits From: Emory F. Bunn, ted@physics2.berkeley ...
512. Planets in the Bible: I -- The Cosmology of Job [Journals] [SIS Review]
... be uppermost - but since it is a globe in the ether, where should there be an upper, or where an under side of it?" (16) The fact that the earth "hangeth upon nothing" was also known to the ancient Greeks, among them the Neo-Platonist philosopher Proclus, who "insisted that the planets had moons, that stars also had satellites .. . that the spheres' did not revolve but only the planets in them, and hinted at the rotation of the Earth on its axis..." (17). Did, then, the wisdom of Job include a hitherto unsuspected body of astronomical knowledge? The tribe of Issachar ...
513. On the Crab Supernova of 1054 [Journals] [Kronos]
... ?] ", the following information is relevant. Since records of Arabic and European sightings of the 1006 A.D . Supernova in Lupus are known, it does appear strange that the Crab Supernova of 1054 evidently went unremarked. This may be explained, however, by their relative brightness. The former was reportedly as bright as the Moon, while the latter was only about as bright as Venus. Coupling this with the following quote provides a plausible answer to the question. It seems that the Aristotelian concept of a perfect, changeless celestial vault was firmly rooted throughout Christendom until the Renaissance. The noted historian of science George Sarton concluded: "The failure of medieval Europeans ...
514. Geological Genesis [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... - We propose that Earth was a satellite of Saturn, or more correctly a body which the ancients identified as Ouranus and which we shall refer to as proto-Saturn. The present day Saturn is all that remains of the once larger primary which we orbited as the closest and innermost satellite. - As such, in the same way as our Moon now is in synchronous rotation and always presents the same face to the Earth, Earth as a satellite of proto-Saturn would also have been in synchronous rotation. - Just as measurements have shown that the Moon is slightly egg-shaped with the small end towards the Earth, the Earth in rotation around proto-Saturn would also have been slightly pear-shaped with the ...
515. Mulholland: "A Celestial Mechanician Whose Name is Almost Synonymous with High Precision" [Journals] [Kronos]
... possible example, but neither the questioner nor Storer nor Mulholland seemed to find that answer very persuasive. Mulholland tried to answer for himself. MULHOLLAND: I would like to reply to the last question. I think, [laughter] I think two examples that can be brought to answer that question are the discovery of mass concentrations on the Moon and the internal heat in the Moon, which have both thrown the discussions of the history, the evolution of the Moon, into a state of extreme excitement, and [have] totally rejuvenated the entire subject. [applause] After a final question to Storer and Storer's answer, Velikovsky was recognized. VELIKOVSKY: I wish to ...
516. The Lunar Craters [Books]
... IIII | PART IV : Appendixes I | II | III | IV | Acknowledgements | Notes And References | IV The Lunar Craters Before proceeding with our study of the steady progress achieved in meteoritics, we must now lift our eyes towards the sky and have a quick glance at the features found on our nearest and best-known cosmic companion: the Moon. All who have admired telescopic pictures of our satellite have been struck by its peculiar topography. The landscape is dotted with numerous pits of all sizes, overlapping each other in a disorderly manner. Here and there `ridges' have the appearance of mountain ranges. Striae radiate from certain pits across the mountains. Most circular depressions are ...
517. The Scars of Mars Part II [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Region On Mars Figure 7 illustrates the Opposite Hemisphere of Mars. Three kinds of phenomena are brought to attention: Bulging Rifting Volcanism Most planets are not perfect spheres. Earth, for instance, is an oblate spheroid- fatter around the equator and flattened at the poles; this is due to a compromise between centrifugal force and gravity. The Moon has a lump or bulge on one side. Mars has both, for Mars also rotates like the Earth, and at a similar rate (one day of rotation is 24 hours 37 minutes). Mars is an oblate spheroid with a bulge region. The bulge region is known as the Tharsis Bulge (see Figure 7). ...
518. Paradigm Lost? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... explosion leaves nothing but shards and fragments. At other times - when two worldlets are in nearly identical orbits with nearly identical speeds - the collisions are nudging, gentle; the bodies stick together and a bigger, double worldlet emerges'. Eventually the giant planets form, but the mayhem is far from over: Collisions of comets with their moons splay out elegant, patterned, irridescent, ephemeral rings. Pieces of an exploded world fall back together, generating a jumbled, odd-lot, motley new moon. As you watch, an Earth-sized body plows into Uranus, knocking the planet over on its side, so once each orbit its poles point straight at the distant Sun'. ...
519. Aftermath to Exposure [Books] [de Grazia books]
... be much lower. In 1959 the ground temperature of Venus was still estimated to be 17 deg C. Mariner II found it to be at least 430 deg C, or about 800 deg F. As for the extent of the earth's magnetic field, Menzel wrote: He [Velikovsky] said that it would extend as far as the moon; actually the field suddenly breaks off at a distance of several earth diameters. ' More than a year before Menzel took it upon himself to answer Larrabee, satellite Explorer X had detected the earth's magnetic field at a distance of at least 22 earth radii and gave no indication that this was its limit. Recently the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform ...
520. The Coming Cosmic Debate in the Sciences and Humanities: Revolutionary Vs. Evolutionary Primevology [Articles]
... people has its songs and dances that sooth the uneasy breast. I studied one song that is found in the Odyssey of Homer, that I call the Love Song of Demodocus. It consists of a hundred lines of poetry describing an opera ballet. I believe that I have discovered in its plot a masking of the terrible planetary encounter between Moon and Mars that I mentioned a moment ago. According to the song, Aphrodite (the Moon Goddess) and Mars (the war god) are making love in the bed of the god Vulcan, who traps them by his electrical genius and then is persuaded to release them by the Barth-god Poseidon. Like religious observances, but much ...
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