Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-28
|ppfr~Sor See Makes Inter-
 estlng Report on Lunar
 Probabilities
BIOLOGISTS NOW
 ACCEPT NEW IDEA
neori,S Once Held Ridicu- Iou~ Date Back Many
 Years in Science

he, 'n the origin of the planets .s..., of the solar system, earlier |, n. which were made public ,w. and June of the present 'r.. ~Sor T. J. ]. See. '. s. N., the m. in charge of the Naval ob,
 ny Mare Island, gave tonight
 A,.wnOmical Society of the Pa m plantation of the origin of .,5.~ ot the moon, and then pro
 r. tpply the new theory to the t.~ If the planets, which, he y.-. the last difficulty in the
 T. Capture Theory" recent .-... by him as supplanting the .Npothesis of Laplaee.
 .s-.- See announced that the
 ra..rs were undoubtedly due to 0a,. of smaller satellites against -ta.. of the moon, and not to Q a.'lon, as has been generally i ,H'e the time of Calico. The aat he lunar craters might be impact, he said, had occurred to
 a, .ong ago as 1873, and had el-.ned as a curiosity by New n lN1N; while it had been more eve.oped by Dr. G. K. Gilbert, Ju.-"i States Geological survey But the impact theory had bee. accepted by geologists or mers, and was not mentioned in e-r work on astronomy, so great Q ,ar force of traditional opinion 2 r1 the old volcanic theory.
 .s>Nr See, however, pointed out reasons, which, he claims, were ely lerisive against the volcanic
 ar. remarked that there would
 le,, dItticulty in seeing the truth
 impact theory than formerly,
 be lad recently proved that the 5 a.' part of the earth thrown .aH" rotation, but a planet cap ron pace. The now theory of
 ru-. of the moon, he said, had lN"n.y received by the seien- w.' but it would be of still
 .,. n bringing to light other nr-. such as those announced ea -a.d the typical crater of the .a, very large circular depres- ih >.""p walls inside and sloping ut~.t". and a small peak in the
 Wi. the top of it below the .-E.. of the lunar surface. If supposed the eraters to be vol f w.- impossible to account for te,,"n where the craters stand; t.-nos directed from within lg ".' the circular trough about
 k Io the center. Then, too, the
 e rrrers lie over one another that They are nothing but satels 1d-urtrIOns. About the newer
 a, 4pernicus, Tycho, Aristar- ,r.. .." bright rays radiating in r'..- show that at the time of Ih.or- the force of the impact .h t.ar matter was melted, vapor- d or.yon out from these centers
 rer'.1us. A satellite hitting the ngh' have it's temperature raised
 la'",and degrees or higher, and ght rays from the craters were
 the altering of highly heated o-azr. flash seen in target prac- Den mot hits the target was to "hcers of the military ser l1 ... hattening and spreading
 N'v.'ilc was such as to bive % q. enter of the mashed shell q. ame time a rim is formed
 It, like that seen about the
 Of '.. moon. But the shot fired 4.g. est target practice on the Is a- mpthing compared to that |
 heavens where satellites from
 to .''v miles in diameter had uf.e gainst the lunar surface
 'r 'y of over mile a sec -l produced blazing con oGN metimes covering the ,II' the moon. .'>o. ~.n pointed out that many gfa'. are largely covered with u a kind of metallic or an, ...oh had fallen from such "a. ... There is no air about l ,D .u which it can remain long
 1.. .u said that the moon had 's' seas or smaller bodies of |
 aA. at the lunar mountains | 1u'. due to impact of satel- gan. he surface; but thought l 'a, "' He collisions had occurred
 'D. Dn was captured by the | a.I rrefore, while the moon | |' | lying in the. region Oc
 by Asteroids. The smaller us RI. about the size of the fall. ''.', Hoich have produced the
 ... raters-from twenty tol -...- TOSS. This is about the
 .lo net Eros, which approach | earth than any other g ',.- .oss of the surface of our 'o" w many hard knocks it
 the past. Every planet | ,.. '..gh a similar experience, .' U" z atmosphere and oceans, va. have suffered such great | ,,, e. 0. ges that they have long s. ,s a.. race of ancient battering, 1 c Icntations have survived r- ','.'.~ and waterles5 moon, to 1 ', 'DD 'crrifc process by which