River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-08
"MOON CAPTURED BY EARTH,
NOT DETACHED"
BY PROF. T. J. J. SEE.
astronomer Charge of Naval Observatory at Mare
0 Island, CALI
BY PROF. r. J. j. SEE


I have mechanically proved a discovery that the
is planet captured by the earth from and
not detached portion of globe reject entirely the
longaccepted theories of Lapace and Sir George Darwin
ascribing earthly origin the My discovery is
supported by rigorous mathematical proof based the
methods of Hill. Poincare and Darwin.
This announcement is a further development of my
discovery promulgated last January that all planets and
satellites captured bodies which have since had their
orbits reduced in size rounded up the secular
action of the nebular resisting medium pervadng
the solar system showed how these bodies which
revolved around the like the asteroids do had
made circuits close about the planets In the neghbor
hood Of planet like Jupiter the sphere of the suns
troll is shown to have extension protuberance it,
like the neck of bottle hourgass with very unequal
bulbs and when the small bodies moving about the
into this neck they could revove about Jupiter and
in many again return to their paths about the
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
the satellite orbits observed to be. Such has
been the origin of the satellites generally and the rings
of Saturn have had similar orignby the capture of
waste nebuosty circulating around the When
this matter is brought in the planet
again but must stay there permanently because
supreme
In the case of the terrestrial moon however more
than usual uncertainty existed large satel
lite originated and special investigation of the problem
had to be made The moons is relatively very
large about oneeigheth of the earths mass and then
Darwins argument that the moon had been part
of the EARTH had to be have proved mathe-
maticay that moon too, had been captured
come to us from the heavenly spaces.
It originally planet like Mercury but not quite
large and moved about the nearly same dis
the earth. Then it between the sun and
the earth in such to enter the
resembling bottle neck projecting from the suns sphere
of control and enclosing the earth This was quite
small and narrow but the bulb Of space enclosing the
earth and constituting its sphere of attraction was of
siderable size When the had left the sun s
control and into the bulb about the earth met
with resistance the neck closed so that
the bottled up under the earths control and
could not Hence it has remained with the earth
ever since, and will always abide with US.
By revolving about the earth in the space controlled
by planet the has met with considerable
sisance and it's orbit has become and smaller
and also rounder and rounder Thus it has
and the EARTH but has than
present Darwins theory OF the detachment from
the earth is overthrown and entirely theory
veloped which has the support of all the highest
NAUTICAL science known.
The famous outstanding inequality of six seconds in
the secular acceleration of the moons motion
explained This perturbation in the moons motion
had been discovered by HALEY in the time of Newton
partially explained by Leplace in 1887 gravity
would account for the observed acceleraon
the time of the Chadeans, B. c. 720
standing difference had perpexed the greatest
ticians for than century Having discovered that
the moon originally captured, and still SLOWLY
nearing the EARTH have removed the last difficulty and
the result will be a decided improvement in astronomy