The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-07-08
"MOOW CAPTURED BY EARTH,
NOT DETACHED"
BY PROF. r. j. j. SEE.
Astronomer In Charge OF Naval Observatory at Mare
Island. CALI

BY PROF. r. j. j. SEE,

have Mechanically proved discovery that the
is planet captured by the earth from space and
not detached portion OF our globe reject entirely the
ongaccepted theories of Lapace and Sir George Darwin
ascrlbng earthly origin to the moon. 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 are captured bodies which have since had their
orbits reduced in size and rounded up the secular
action Of the nebuar resisting medium once pervading
the solar system. showed how these bodies which once
revolyed around the like the asteroids do had
made circuits close about the planets In the neighbor
hood of planet like Jupiter the sphere of the
troll is shown to have extension protuberance IT,
like the neck of bottle hougass with very unequal
bulbs and when the small bodies moving about the sun
into this neck they could revove Jupiter and
In again return to their paths about the SUN
In other after revolving about Jupiter they would
be captured by the action OF nehulous resisting me-
dum about the planet and stay there forever as satellites
BY revolving about the planet for long time their
orbits would be rounded up into almost perfect circles
and made smaller and smaller till they became Just like
the satellite orbits observed to be- Such has
been the origin of the satellites generally rings
OF Saturn have had similar orignby the CAPTURE Of
waste nebulosity once circulating the sun When
this matter is brought in the planet It cannot
again escape but must stay there permanently because
In the space near the planet the planets attraction is
supreme.
In the of the terrestrial moon however more
than usual uncertainty existed to how this large sate
lite originated and special investigation OF problem
had to be made. The moons Is relatively very
large about oneeghtieth OF the earhs mass and then
Darwn's argument that the moon had once been mart
OF the EARTH had to be overcome. have proved mntba
macally that our too had been captured and had
come to us from the heavenly spaces
1t was originally planet like Mercury. but not unit.
so large and moved about the nearly the same dis
lance the earth Then 1t between the sun and
the earth in such way the neck of the snace
resembling bottle neck projecting from the SUMS snbara
OF control and enclosing the earth This neck was opa
small and narrow but the bulb Of space enclosing tho
earth and constituting its sphere attraction WINS of CON
siderable size When the once left tho su,,,
control and gone into the bulb about the earth n mo,
with some resistance and the became closed ao that
the moon was bottled up under earths control and
could not escape Hence has remained with the earth
ever since, and will always abide with u.s.
BY revolving about the earth in the space conro,,ed
by our planet. the moon has met with consderabje re
sstance, and its orbit has become smaller and smaer
and also rounder and rounder Thus Il has coma
and nearer the EARTH but been closer than a,
present Darwins theory of the moons detachment
the earth is overhrown and entirely new tbeorv 40
veoped which has the support of the higbest matha
NAUTICAL science known
The famous outstanding inequality of six seco,as q,
the secular acceleration OF the moons mean motion ia
thus explained This perturbation In the moon poion
had been discovered by HALEY In the time of Nau,on
1t was partially explained by Leplace I'm 1887 bu prav
alone would not account for the observed
since the time OF the Chaldeans, c. 100 and the ont
standing difference had perplexed the greatest atboma
ucans Tor more than century Having discovered that
the moon was originally captured and was sti SLOWLY
nearing the EARTH have the last d1cu,tv nnd
the result Will be decided improvement In ASTRONOMY