The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
"MOON CAPTURED BY EARTH,
NOT DETACHED"
BY PROF. T. J. J. SEE.
astronomer in Charge of Naval Observatory Mare
Island, CALI

BY PROF. T. J. ]. SEE.

have automatically proved discovery that the
moon is planet captured by the earth from and
not detached portion of globe. reject entirely the
theories of Lapace and 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 further development Of my
discovery promulgated last January that all planets and
satellites captured bodies which since 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
revolved around the like the asteroids now do had
made circuits close about the planets. In the neighbor
hood of planet like Jupiter the sphere of the suns
troll is shown to have extension protuberance
like the neck of bottle hourglass with very UNEQUAL
bulbs and when the small bodies moving about the
came into this neck they could revove about Jupiter
in many again return to their paths about the
In other after revolving about Jupiter they would
be captured by the action of the nebuous 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 lust like
the satellite orbits observed to be- Such has
been the origin of the satellites generally and the rings
of Saturn have had similar orgin-by the capture of
waste nebuosity once circulating around the When
this matter once brought in the planet
again escape but must stay there permanently
in the space the planet the planets attraction
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
had to be made. The moons is relatively very
large about oneeightieth the earhs mass and then
Darwin's argument that the had once been part
OF the EARTH had to be overcome have proved mathe
matcay that moon, too had captured and had
come to us from the heavenly spaces
1t was originally planet like Mercury but not quite
large and moved about the nearly the same dis
lance the earth. Then between the sun and
the earth in such way to enter the the
resembling bottle neck projecting from the suns sphere
OF control and enclosing the earth neck was quite
small and narrow, but the bulb of space enclosing the
earth and constituting its sphere attraction was of
siderable size. When the once left the SIMS
control and gone into the bulb about the earth II met
with some and the neck closed so that
the moon was bottled up under the earh 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-
sistance and its orbit has become smaller and smaller
and also rounder and rounder Thus has come nearer
and nearer the earth but has closer than at
present Darwns theory OF the moons detachment from
the earth is overthrown and entirely new theory de-
veoped which has the support of all highest mahe
NAUTICAL science now known.
The famous outstanding inequality of six seconds in
the secular acceeration of the mean motion ia
thus explained This perturbation in the moons motion
had been discovered by HALEY in the time of Newton
1t was partially explained by Lepace in 1887 but gravity
alone would not for the observed acceleation
since the time of the Chadeans, B. c. 72O and the ont
standing difference had perpaxed the greatest mahema
cians for more than century Having discovered that
the moon was originally captured and was still SLOWLY
nearing the EARTH have removed tae last difficulty and
the result will be decided Improvement in astronomy