Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-29
MOON CAPTIVE OF EARTH.
Professor See Presents Proof Of Origin
of Fair Luna.

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San Francisco June 29.--Announce-
ment was made by Prof. II. j. j. See.
astronomer In charge of the naval OBJ
servatory at Mare island. that he has
mathematically proved discovery that
the moon is planet captured by the
earth from space and not detached
portion of our globe. He rejects en-
tlrely the long accepted theories OF La
place and Sir George Darwin ascribing
earthly origin to the moon, and asserts
that his discovery Is supported by rig
orous mathematical proof based on the
methods of Hin, Poincare and Dar-
win.
Professor Sees announcement was
made in paper presented TO the meet
ing of the Astronomical Society of the
opment of his discovery promulgated
last January that all planets and satel-
lites are captured bodies, which have
since had their orbits reduced In size
and rounded up under the secular ne
ton of the nebular resisting medium
once pervading the solar system In
his former paper presenting this the
Dry, Professor See showed how these
bodies, which once revolved around the
Sun like the asteroids now do. had
made circuits close about the planets
In the neighborhood of planet liks
Jupiter. the sphere OF the suns control
was shown to have an extension or
protuberance on 1t, like the neck of u
bottle, or hour glass with very un-
equal bulbs. and when the small bodies
mnVjnu about On, int
neck they could revolve about Jupiter.
and In many cases again return to
their paths about the sun In other
cases after revolving about Jupiter
they would be captured by the action
of the nebulous resisting medium about
the planet, and stay there forever as
satellites.
BY revolving about the planet for a
long time. their orbits would be round
ed up into almost perfect circles, and
made smaller and smaller, till they be-
came just like the satellite orbits are
now observed to be. Such, NE says, has
been the origin of the satellites gener-
ally. and the rings of Saturn have had
a similar origin-by the capture of
waste nebulosity once circulating
once brought in near the planet, it
can not again escape, but must stay
there permanently, because in the space
near the planet the planets attraction
is supreme.
BY revolving about the earth in the
space controlled by our planet, the
moon has met with considerable resist
ance. and it's orbit has become smaller
and smaller. and also rounder and
rounder. Thus it has come nearer and
nearer the earth bat never has been
closer than al present. iiItass." he
concludes, ''Darwin's theory of the
moons detachment from the earth Is
overthrown, and an entirely new the
ory developed which has the support
of all the highest mathematical SCI
ence now known"
In second paper communicated to
the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
Professor Sec explained the famous
outstanding inequality Of six seconds
in the secular acceleration of the
moons mean action. He said this per-
turbation In the moons motion had
been discovered by HALEY In the time
of Newton. 1t was partially explained
by Leplace in 1887 but gravity alone
would not account for the observed
acceleration since the time of the Chal-
deans, 720 B. c., and the outstanding
difference had perplexed the greatest
for more than n CEN
tury. Having discovered that the
moon was originally captured, and was
still slowly nearing the earth. Professor
See said he had removed the last diff
ficulty, and the result would be de-
'cided improvement In astronomy.