The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-07-16
"MOON CAPTURED BY EARTH,
NOT DETACHED"
BY PROF. r. ). J. sEE.
astronomer in Charge Of Naval Observatory at Mare
isand, CALI

/ have mathematically proved discovery that the
is planet captured by the earth from space and
ongaccepted theories of Laplace and Sir George Darwin
ascribng earthly origin 10 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 January planets
satellites captured bodies since had their
orbits reduced in size and rounded under the
action Of the nebular resisting medium pervadng
the solar system. showed how these bodies whicA once
revolved around the like the asteroids now do had
made circuits close about the planets In the neghbor-
hood Of planet like Jupiter the sphere SUMS con-
troll is shown to have extension protuberance it,
like the neck Of bottle, hourglass very UNEQUAL
bulbs and when the small bodies moving about the sun
into this neck they could about Juper and
in cases again their paths about the sun
In other after revolving about Jupiter they would
be captured by the action Of the nebuous resisng me-
dum about the planet and stay there satellites
BY revolving about the planet for a long time their
orbits would be rounded into perfect circles
and made smaller smaller till they became lust IKE
the satellite orbits are observed be- Such has
been the origin of the satellites generally and the rings
OF Saturn have had similar orign-by the capture of
waste nebulosity circulating around the sun When
this matter is brought in the planet it cannot
again escape but stay there permanently because
In the space the planet the planets attraction Is
supreme.
In the case of the terrestrial moon, however more
than usual uncertainty existed to how this large sae
lite originated, and special investigation the problem
had to be made. The moons mass Is relatively verv
large about eghteth Of the earths mass and then
Darwn's argument that the moon had once been Dart
OF the earth, had to be have proved mafha
macally that moon too had been captured and Ma
come to us from the heavenly spaces.
IL was originally planet like Mercury but not ou,ta
SO large and moved about the sun at nearly the same s
tance the earth Then came between the s,n ana
the earth In such to enter the neck Of the snace
resembling bottle neck projecting from the SUMS snhar
OF control and enclosing the earth This neck was ,ta
small and narrow. but the bulb space enclosing tha
earth and constituting its sphere attraction was ~ con-
siderable size When the had once left Tho s,,.
control and into the bulb about the earth n mat
with some resistance and the became closed 40 tha
the moon was bottled up earths control ana
could not escape Hence has remained with the earth
ever since. and viii always abide with us
BY revolving about earth In the space contro,oa
by our planet the moon has with coDsiderahle ~
sistance and its orbit has smaller ana sna,,a
and also rounder and Thus has come ea,er
and nearer The EARTH but been closer than At
present Darwns theory OF the moons detachment rar
the earth is overhrown an entiyely new thaorv a.
yeoped which has the support MI the highest nsths
matcal science known
The famous outstanding Inequality of six secor,r Nm
the secular acceieraton Of the moons mean motion Ia
thus explained. This perturbation in Me moons onor
had been discovered by HALEY la the time Of Newton
1t was partially explained by Lepace in 1897 bnt gravity
alone would not account for the observed acceeraon
since the time Of the Chaldeans b. 72O and the ont
standing difference had perplexed the greatest ms hema
ucians for more than century Having dscovesa that
the moon originally captured and was stIll slowly
nearing the earth have removed the last dincpltv ana
the result VIII be decided improvement II astronomy