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Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: Re: Orbital Elements for the 12th Planet
Date: 6 Feb 1997 14:38:30 GMT
In article <[email protected]> Gary Wiltshire
writes:
>> (Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
>> Unlike planets, which have established their equilibrium
>> after having been trapped into an orbit around a single
focus,
>> the 12th Planet acts as a rogue planet, boring straight
for
>> the Sun. Where its pace between foci is more sedate,
when
>> passing a focus it zooms.
>
> all planetary orbits have TWO of them as those orbits are
> ELLIPSES. Stick two tacks into the cover of one of your
> schlock publications and put a loop of string around them.
> Stretch the loop taut with a pencil and move the pencil
around
> the FOCI. Voila! An orbit!
>[email protected] (Gary A. Wiltshire)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
Your analogy falters, Gary. Reading it one starts to imagine the
orbit of Mars or the Earth, with a pin stuck out there somewhere
to the side of the Sun. Is this truly the case? Perhaps you meant
to say that all orbits are elliptical, which has a different
meaning. You DRAWING TOOLS may need two foci within the ellipse,
but planets do NOT. Their second or third or fourth foci can be
outside of the ellipse, and most often are. We will ask our
emissary, Nancy, to repost a portion of our prior statement on
ellipses.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])
As requested, a paragraph on one of their topics on orbits.
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM] excerpt on Orbits)
Orbiting planets are in motion because they are attracted to more
than the Sun's gravitational field, more than the Sun's dark twin
which acts as the 12th Planet's second foci, and certainly more
than each other, although that is a small factor. Do the stars
maintain their distance from each other by accident? For those
who doubt that there are gravitational influences outside of the
Solar System, pulling on the orbiting planets, we would point to
the elliptical path that planets assume. Why an ellipse? If the
planets were concerned only with the Sun, or with each other,
they would not assume the path they do. Planets assume an
elliptical orbit for the same reason that comets leave the Solar
System. They are listening to more than one voice. As to why this
voice but not another calls to this planet but not another, the
answer lies in the force of gravity, which is not at all as
simple as humans assume. Gravity has many nuances, depending on
composition and distance, and what influences one body toward
another may have little effect on other bodies.
(End ZetaTalk[TM] excerpt on Orbits)