Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

from outer space and not by the breaking
up of an outer crust formed by cooling and
this is not only evidence. it is positive
proof that the earth received its moon in
the same manner. The indlsputable facts
connected with the moons of Mars destroys
the nebular theory. for if these moons came
to that planet from outer space then it can
not be successfully denied that the earth
came to the sun in the same manner; and in
these two little moons of our near neighbor
We have incontrovertiole evidence IN favor
of the theory that the sun, earth. planets
and moons slowly grow in outer space and
are caught by our solar system as 1t moves
constantly into new space never before &C.
cupied by IL.
Another evidence is that Jupiter IN recent
years caught comet and held 1t, revolving
around i. like one of its moons, for six
months, and finally, when 1t did break
away. changing its orbit so that II reyolyeS
around the sun in about seven years. in
stead of twenty-seven as before. This has
occurred twice with the same comet and it
Will, probably, become the fifth moon of
Jupiter.
One of the moons Mars moves around
that planet in less time than it reyolves for
Mars to revOlve on its axis. If this was the
case with our moon it would rise in the
west ana set in the east. This appears to
refute the theory that the elements sur
rounding the sun. earth and planets, re-
volving with them, cause the planets and
moons to revolve around their primaries,
for these elements move slower than the
revolution of the bodies, while this moon of
Mars moves faster than the planet re-
wolves, causing that moon to rise in the
west and set in the east, relative to that
planet.
But when this moon came TO Mars it nee
essarily moved with the velocity of a comet
and its momentum would, for a time, carry
it around its primary with great speed.
Astronomers say that our moon is losing
time, decreasing in velocity. and they fairly
prove this by the GateS of ancient ecupSeS,
and no doubt this rapidly moving moon of
Mars will lose velocity till it is in accord
with the elements that reyolve around that
planet
ochiaparel. the noted italian astronomer,
says that within a few years past wonder
ful changes have taken place i'll the phys
zeal geography of Mars. The seas have
changed their beds the continents have
broken up, some of them disappeared, ana
great rivers, or arms of the seas. occupy
new channels. Such would be the natural
consequence Of acquiring Il moon and this
may suggest an explanation of the great
cataStrophes that are spoken of in the BIZ
bic and the legends that have come down
from prehistoric times through all the races
of men.
Either the acquisition of 4 new planet
like Mercury, or of a moon, or the striking
OF the earth by comet would cause events
similar to the flood. the rising and sinking
OF the seas, or the great changes that mark
the geological ages Of the earth and the
changes of animal life that are SO distinctly
marked by the geological erochs of the
earth.
The newly acquired moons of Mars
marks an epoch III the evolutious of astron-
Omy, and is probably 4 catastrophe on that
planet such as must have occurred on the
earth causing the great epochs of its growth
which probably are identical with the six
periods of creation spoken of in our Bible
Genesis.
Astronomers have but little to say about
these newly acquired moons of Mars, for
they cannot account for them by the old
theories. They see their long and beauti-
ful astronomical dissertations falling into
disrepute because they We're builded on the
sands of the nebular theory, and they pre-
fer to see their rounded sentences fade
silently away to othingness.
w. T. FOSTER.