The Elbert County tribune., 1909-07-08
"MOON CAPTURED BY EARTH.
NOT DETACHED"
BY PROF. T. J. J. SEE.
astronomer In Charge of Naval Observatory at Mare
Island, Cal-)
BY PROF. T. J. J. SEE

have mathematicaly proved discovery that the
moon is planet captured by the earth som and
longaccepted theories of Laplace Sir George
ascribing earthly origin to the My discovery
supported by rigorous mathematical proof based on
methods Of Hill. Poincare and Darwin.
This announcement is a further development OF my
discovery promulgated last January that planets
satellites captured bodies which since had their
orbits reduced in size and up the secular
action OF the nebuar resisting once pervadnsE
the solar system showed how these bodies which once
revoved around the like asteroids now do had
made circuits close about the planets In the negbbor-
hood of planet like Jupiter the sphere the suns con-
troll is shown to have extension protuberance on IL
like the neck Of bottle hourgass with very uneousy
bulbs and when the small bodies moving about the sun
came into this neck they could revolve Jupiter an
IN many cases again return to their paths about
In other after revolving about Jupiter thev vrJ
oe captured py the action OF the nebuous resisting
dum ABOUT the planet and stay there forever
BY revolving about the planet for a long time their
orbits would be rounded into perfect circles
and made smaller and smaller, they became us IKE
the satellite orbits are observed to be- Such ha.
been the origin OF the satellites generally and the ring.
OF saturn have had similar orignby the capture Of
waste nebuosity circulating the sun Wbc
this matter is brought the planet II cannot
again escape but must stay there permanently becar
In the space near the planet the planets attraction In
supreme
In the of the terrestrial moon however mor,
han usual uncertainty existed this large satet
e originated and special investigation OF the problem
had to be made. The moons mass ia reIativev 49,
large about oneeghteth OF earths mass. ana th.n
Darwn's argument that moon had once been n,rr
OF he earth had to be overcome. proved rnatbs
matcaly that our moon too had captured and had
come to us from the heavenly spaces
IL was originally planet like Mercury but nor oufy.
SO large and moved about the nearly the same az
lance as the earth Then between the sun ana,
he earth In such to the neck of the
resembling bottle neck projecting the SUMS spbera
OF control and enclosing the This neck vva
small and narrow but the bulb space enclosn1 M.
earth and constituting its sphere attraction wa. ~ con-
siderable size When the once left the aun,.
control and gone into the bulb about the earth i, t
win some resistance and the closed ~ t,
he moon was bottled up under earths control ,s
could not escape Hence 1t has remained with tho
ever since. and will always abide with us -
BY revolving about the in the space ntro,,ea
oy our planet the moon has with considerable ra
sistance and Its orbit has become smaller and sma,lex
and also rounder and Thus II has coma ra,
ana nearer the EARTH but been closer than -
present Darwns theory OF the detachment frr,
he earth Is oyerthrown and entirely new theory a.
Veoped winch has the support of the highest uath
matcal science known. ~
The famous outstanding inequality of six secona. a.,
ne secular acceleration Of the moons mean motion q
thus explained This perturbation the moons moton
had been discovered by HALEY the time OF Newfe
IL was partially explained by Leplace in 1857 but rravtt
alone would not account for the observed accelerate,
since the time Of the Chadeans b. c. 720 and M ~.
standing difference had perpexed the greatest r,aern
ucans Tor more than century Having dscoyered th.r
the moon was originally captured was sti siov1x
nearing the earth have last didicuItv n
the result viii be decided Improvement in astronomy