Re: Watch Mercury Transit the Sun on November 8 Live From Kitt Peak National Observatory

You sound just a bit of a crackpot, oriel!

Saul Levy


On 27 Oct 2006 10:19:50 -0700, "oriel36" <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The true description of the Nov 8th event that is acceptable to
heliocentric astronomers is that the faster Mercury,in an inner orbital
circuit,is overtaking the slower moving orbital motion of the Earth.

Describing the motion of Mercury across the face of the Sun from Earth
is hardly an astronomical description but unfortunately this view is
the only one acceptable to guys raised on celestial sphere geometry.

Rarer than the event itself is a person who can truly appreciate in the
original way the first heliocentric astronomers looked out on the
orbital motion of the Earth and the other planets ,while the Mercury
event is astronomically more fleeting that the graceful sweep of the
outer planets as the faster Earth overtakes them,the result is an
appreciation of human reasoning -

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0112/JuSa2000_tezel.gif

How many of you will look out on the motion of Mercury on the 8th and
see the orbital motion of Mercury begin to overtake the Earth's orbital
motion with the stationary Sun at the center of it all and as a
backdrop -

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar


Of course,being bound to Newton and celestial sphere geometry you deny
that planetary orbital motions are seen directly from an orbitally
moving Earth ,the price of your celestial sphere peep show based on the
motion of Mercury across the Sun is that the rest of humanity is denied
a proper appreciation of the event .
.

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