St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-24
"eMOON CAPTURED BY EARTH,
NOT DETACHED"
BY PROF. 7. j. J. SEE.
astronomer IN Charge of Naval Observatory at Mare
Island, CALI
+ PROF. I. j. j. SEE.

l have mathematfcaly 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 Sir George Darwin
ascribing earthly origin to 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 their
orbits reduced in size and rounded up the
action of the nebuar resisting medium once pervading
the solar system. how these bodies which once
revolved around the like the asteroids now do had
made circuits close about the planets the neighbor-
hood OF planet like Jupiter the sphere of the suns
troll is shown to have extension rotuberance it.
like the neck of bottle hourglass with very unequal
bulbs and when the small bodies moving about the sun
came into this neck they could revove about Jupiter
in again return their paths about the sun
In other after revolving Jupiter they would
be captured by the action Of the nebuous resisting me-
dunn about the planet and 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 are observed to be. Such has
been the origin of the satellites generally and the rings
OF Saturn have had similar originby the capture of
waste nebuosity circulating around the sun When
this matter Is brought the planet cannot
again but must stay there permanently because
In the space the planet the planets attraction ia
supreme
In the of the terrestrial moon however more
than usual uncertainty existed to how this large sate
lite originated and special investigation of the problem
large about one-eighteth of the mass and then
DarWins argument that the had once been part
or the EARTH had to be overcome. have proved mahe
matcay that moon, too been captured and had
come to us from the heavenly spaces
It was originally planet like Mercury but not cuita
SO large and moved about the at nearly same dis
lance as the earth. Then between the sun and
the earth in such way the neck of the
resembling bottle neck projecting from the suns sphere
of control and enclosing the earth This neck was quite
small and narrow, but the bulb Of space enclosing the
earth and constituting it's sphere attraction was of
siderable size. When the had once left the sup,a
control and into the bulb the earth n a4
with some resistance and the closed so
the moon bottled up under the earhs control and
could not escape Hence it has remained with the earth
ever since, and will always abide with u.s.
BY revolving about the earth In the space controlled
Dy our planet the moon has met with considerable re-
s1stanee and its orbit has become smaller and smaller
and also rounder and rounder Thus it has come nearer
and nearer the EARTH but has closer than at
present Darwins theory of the detachment from
the earth is overthrown, and entirely new theory de-
veloped which has the support Of all the highest ah
matical science known.
The famous outstanding inequality of six seconds in
the secular acceeration of the mean motion ia
thus explained This perturbation in the moons rtfon
had been discovered by HALEY In the time of Newton
1t was partially explained by Leplace 1887 gravity
alone would not account for the observed
since the time of the Chadeans, C. 100 and the ou
standing difference had perpexed the greatest
tcfans for than century Having discovered that
the moon originally captured, was still slowly
nearing the earth have removed the last difficulty ana
the result will be decided Improvement in astronomy