Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-07-09
"MOON CAPTURED BY EARTH,
NOT DETACHED"
BY PROF. T. j. J. SEE.
astronomer in Charge Naval Observatory at Mare
Island. CALI
BY PROF. T. j. J. SEE.

have mathematicaly proved discovery that the
moon is planet captured by the earth from space and
not detached portion of globe. reject entirely the
ongaccepted theories of Laplace and Sir George Darwin
ascribng earthly origin to the moon My discovery is
supported by rigorous mathematical proof based the
methods of Hill. Poincare and Darwin.
This announcement is further development Of my
discovery promulgated last January that all planets and
satellites captured bodies which have since had their
orbits reduced in size and rounded under the secular
action of the nebuar resisting medium pervading
the solar system showed how these bodies which
revoved around the sun like the asteroids do, had
made circuits close about the planets In the neighb5r
hood of planet like Jupiter the sphere of the
troll is shown to have extension prouberance it.
like the neck of bottle hourgass with very unequal
bulbs, and when the small bodies moving the sun
came into this neck they could revove about Jupiter
in many cases again return to their paths about
In other after revolving about Jupiter they would
be captured by the action of the nebulous resisting
dunn about the planet and stay there forever satellites
BY revolving about the planet for long time their
orbits would be rounded into almost perfect circles
and made smaller and smaller till they became Just like
the satellite orbits observed to be- Such has
been the origin of the satellites generally and the rings
of Saturn have had similar orign-by the capture of
waste nebulosity once circulating the When
this matter is brought in planet it cannot
again escape but must stay there permanently because
In the space near the planet the planets attraction Is
supreme.
In the case of the terrestrial moon however more
than usual uncertainty existed large sate
lite originated, and special investigation of the problem
had TO De made. The moons mass is relatively very
large about oneeghteth of the mass; and then
Darwln's argument that the had been a mart
OF the earth had to be overcome. have proved mathe
macaly that our moon too had been captured and had
come to us from the heavenly spaces.
IT was originally planet like Mercury but not ouita
SO large and moved about the nearly the same dis
tance as the earth Then 1t between the sun and
the earth In such to enter the of the spaca
resembling bottle neck projecting from the SUMS snbere
OF control and enclosing the EARTH neck was unite
small and narrow, but the bulb space enclosing tho
earth and constituting its sphere attraction was of
siderable size When the once left the s,,n
control and gone into the bulb the earth n mat.
with some resistance and the closed so
the moon was bottled up under earhs control asd
could not escape Hence 1t has remained with the earth
ever since, and Will, always abide with u.s.
BY revolving about the in the space centralized
by our planet the moon has with re-
sisance and its orbit has smaller and smaller
and also rounder and Thus 1t has come
and nearer the earh but been closer than at
present Darwins theory Of the moons detachment from
the earth s overthrown and entirely new theory de-
veloped which has the support all the highest mathe
matical science known.
The famous outstanding inequality of six seconds I'm
the secular acceeraton of the moons mean motion s
thus explained This perturbation In the moons motion
had been discovered by HALEY In the time of Newton
It was partially explained by Lepace In 1887 but gravit
alone would not account for the observed acceeratio
since the time OF the Chadeans b. c. 720 and the ont
standing difference had pepexed greatest mathema
ucans for more than century Having discovered that
the moon was originally captured was still glowlv
nearing the earth have last dculty ana
the result Will be decided Improvement in astronomy