Re: 2007 astronomy news highlights
- From: oriel36 <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:11:48 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 18, 11:18 pm, "Tom Van Flandern" <to...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The2007December 15 issue of the Meta Research Bulletin is available for
reading in HTML and PDF formats:http://metaresearch.org/publications/bulletin/bulletin.asp
This issue contains three featured articles:
. Book Review: "The Virtue of Heresy"
. Predictions for the Mercury Messenger Mission
. The Great Comet Holmes Outburst of2007(an explanation that works well
for all comet outbursts)
Our regular feature, "Meta Science in the News", contains a round-up of
astronomy news stories in2007and how the mainstream and Meta Science
expectations fared in connection with each story:
o Moon Origin: Earth's Moon is a cosmic rarity
o Did the Moon form from Earth?
o H-fusion may not be the main heat source inside stars
o Possible asteroid impact on Mars could produce major dust storm
o Claims of Martian bacterial life
o Dino-killing asteroid traced to cosmic collision
o 'Body C' gets a name
o Discovery of first NEO-producing meteorites
o Astronomers baffled by basalt in the outer asteroid belt
o Evidence for the origin of Ceres as a moon of 'Planet K'
o A belt of moonlets in Saturn's A ring
o Evidence for two populations of classical trans-Neptunian objects: The
strong inclination dependence of classical binaries
o Formation mechanisms for Kuiper Belt Binaries
o The Pioneer Anomaly: non-existent in outer solar system
o Giant void casts doubt on current models of the universe
o Dark Matter Mystery Deepens in Cosmic 'Train Wreck'
o Galactic Halo: Two stellar components in the halo of the Milky Way
o The Edge at the Edge of the Universe
o Reports from the Alternative Cosmology Group newsletter
o NGC4319 & Markarian 205: connected by a luminous bridge?
o Universal 'axis of evil' starting to look real
o Do high-energy gamma rays travel slower than low-energy rays?
o NeWiki: A new science supplement to Wikipedia
Tom Van Flandern - Sequim, WA - see our web site on frontier astronomy
research athttp://metaresearch.org
That is not astronomical news,that is theoretical astrology.
For astronomers,there is the rarity of a new motion applied to the
Earth's orbital motion.A location turns through 360 degrees with
respect to the Sun over the course of an annual orbit and in
accordance with Keplerian motion,the information is extracted from the
sequence of images of Uranus where the Equatorial rings act like a
beacon for the changing orientation of a location wrt the Sun -
http://asymptotia.com/wp-images/2007/08/uranus_rings.jpg
Applied to the Earth,it replaces the Copernican reasoning based on
variable Equatorial/axial inclination as the cause for the variations
in daylight/darkness and explains,in tandem with axial rotation and
natural noon as a benchmark,why the daily cycles are unequal.
Had the great Copernicus kept his original proposals in treating axial
and orbital motions seperate then he possibly could have reasoned why
an inhabitant at the Equator sees no difference in the length of
daylight/darkness thereby coming to a more satisfactory conclusion
however the motion applied to orbital motion is extremely difficult to
detect for the Earth yet the planet Uranus makes it obvious.
Again,the last great refinement of Copernican reasoning was Kepler's
insight into orbital motion,the new addition (partly due to the power
of modern imaging and partly to good old-fashioned interpretation)
only requires astronomers with the capacity to know that it is both
new and exciting and waiting to be explained to a public who have
suffered from nothing only tedious empirical junk.
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