The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-07-17
"MOON CAPTURED BY EARTH,
NOT DETACHED"
BY PROF. 7. ). ). SEE.
astronomer in Charge of Naval Observatory at Mare
Island. Cal)
BY PROF. 7. ). ). SEE.

I have Mechanically proved discovery that the
is planet captured by the earth from and
not detached portion Of globe reject entirely the
theories OF Laplace and Sir George Darwin
ascribng 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 have since had their
orbits reduced in size and rounded under the secular
action Of the nebuar resisting medium pervadng
the solar system. showed how these bodies which once
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 hourglass with unequal
bulbs and when the small bodies moving about the
came into this neck they could revove about Jupiter and
in again return 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 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 observed be. Such has
been the origin of the satellites generally the rings
Of Saturn have had similar orgin-by the capture of
waste nebulosity circulating around the When
this matter is brought in the planet cannot
again but must stay there permanently because
In the space near the planet the planets attraction IL
supreme.
In the Of the terrestrial moon however.
than usual uncertainty existed how this satel
lite originated and special investigation of the problem
had to be made. The moons is relatively very
large, about oneeightieh of the earth then
Darwn's argument that the moon had been part
of the EARTH had to be have proved mathe
matcaly that too had been captured and had
come to us from the heavenly spaces.
1t was originally planet like Mercury but quite
large, and moved about the nearly
lance the earth. Then It came between the sun and
the earth In such way to the OF space
resembling bottle neck projecting from the suns sphere
OF control and enclosing the earth This neck quite
small and narrow. but the bulb of enclosing the
earth and constituting its sphere of attraction of
siderable size. When the had left the SUMS
control and into the bulb about the EARTH It
with resistance and the neck became closed that
the moon was bottled up" under the earths control and
could not escape Hence 1t has remained with earth
ever since. and win always abide with us.
By revolving about the earth in the space controlled
By our planet the has met with considerable re-
sistance and its orbit has become smaller smaller
and also rounder and rounder Thus nearer
and the EARTH but never been closer than at
present Darwns theory Of the moons detachment from
the earth Is overthrown, and entirely theory
veoped which has the support of all the highest mathe
NAUTICAL science now known.
The famous outstanding Inequality OF six seconds in
the secular acceeraton Of the moons mean motion Is
thus explained This perturbation In the moons motio2
had been discovered by HALEY IN the time OF Newton.
Il partially explained BY Lepace 1857 but eravity
alone would not account for the observed acceertion
since the time Of the Chadeans b. c. 720 and the out
standing difference had ppexed the greatest mathema
tcians for more than century Having discovered that
The moon was originally ceUeurtd ana - stil aloxy
nearing ~ earth, hare removed TIE last douty ana
the result vnl - dseI1ed mproyensns q estToaomy.