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Article: <5gie0i$3dc@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: REPEATING COMETS - the Zetas Explain (was Re: LONG ELLIPSE ORBITS)
Date: 17 Mar 1997 03:32:34 GMT
In article <5gc1of$ecp@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> Rich Zuchowski
writes:
> Why don't comets just fall directly into the sun? On it's
> return path, I assume it is gaining it's speed from the pull
> of the sun, yet when it gets close it just misses the source
> of the pull and swings around to try again? It's got an awful
> long way to 'fall' to get lined up for a direct hit. I would
> think a gravitational pull strong enough to keep the much
> larger masses of the planets swinging around in nearly
> circular orbits would pull the much smaller masses of the
> comets right into the sun. If the sun has enough gravitational
> pull to slow down and stop this high speed comet on it's
> way back out of the solar system, how come it doesn't have
> enough pull to pull it directly into the sun?
> rzuch@ix.netcom.com(Rich Zuchowski )
Ah, Rich, it just so happens those know-it-all Zetas have an existing ZetaTalk that addresses just that issue!
(Begin ZetaTalk[Tm])
ZetaTalk: Repeating Comets
Repeating comets are attracted to the Sun, are heading for it, but miss due to the same sensitivity to the solar wind that causes their dust clouds and gasses to blow away from the Sun. Humans assume that tiny particles will be more affected by the solar wind than larger particles, but this assumption is wrong. If this were the case, then how to explain the Asteroid Belt, which has trash of all sizes, seemingly unaffected by the solar wind. A small object may lose its velocity faster than a larger object, due to the gravitational differences, but the effect is the same when they are sensitive to the solar wind - they are pushed away. Comets that hit the Sun have, through repeated trips around the Sun, lost enough water vapor so that the balance of their composition weighs against repulsion by the solar wind. In short, they've lost their protection. They come zooming in from outer space, but this time, they don't veer out, they collide. In fact, comets close their orbits, coming closer and closer to the Sun, during this process.
Where a repelling force exists, such as the solar wind against a comet, the comet will veer out and as it gains speed coming into the Solar System, veer in again. The increasing speed of comets allows them to push past their sensitivity to the solar wind, to some degree. Thus they have a quick trip around the Sun while held at the distance where they are essentially getting a blast of wind they cannot proceed against.
The solar wind is steady, its change incremental, as with every measure closer the intensity increases by a similar steady measure. The length away that the comet maintains is not explained by an analogy such as a car hitting a brick wall or a diver entering the water or even a man walking into a hurricane. The comet is slipping to the side as it approaches, going in the direction of least pressure, of least resistance, while still aiming for the Sun. The point where this balance is reached is dependent on the speed of the comet, which increases steadily the closer it gets to the Sun, and the intensity of the blast from the solar wind. At every point along its orbit, these determinators are at play. When out in space the comet's pace is relatively sedate, and thus slides to the side rather than approaching the Sun directly. When it enters your Solar System the reverse is occurring - the speed effect overcoming the solar wind push, so that the comet curves toward the Sun, but always these two factors are at play.
Quite clearly some comets are periodic, as they appear regularly after a set number of years, approach from the same direction, turn around within the Solar System at the same place, exit the Solar System in the same direction, and give the same predictable appearance. But comets that have a long period have been documented in the past in a manner that leaves much doubt. Where astronomers within this very millennium assumed the Sun orbited the Earth, just how accurate can their records have been? And how does one know that a previous comet is returning, even when it approaches from the same direction? Is it not possible to have more than one comet with the same track through the Solar System? Humans are barely out of the dark ages, and if honest would admit that they are guessing. Do they have these comets marked? Do they have an accurate basis of comparison? What are they judging on, the pencil sketch made by someone in antiquity?
Humans think that because mankind spots comets as they loom into range, announcing themselves by outgassing as they enter the Solar System, that human scientists know where the comet has been, and know what its orbit has been. They do not. They can't find these tiny dark specks when they are out in space. When they catch sight of them, the comet orbits are already taking into account their sensitivity to the solar wind. This curve starts well outside the Solar System, a fact known by astronomers.
Humans think that a comet's orbit is maintained by its momentum. Of the factors affecting a tiny comet that approaches the Sun, the force of its current momentum is not dominant. Any child who has thrown a ball and watched it drop toward the Earth as it sped along its trajectory can sense this. Archers allow for this in attempting to hit their target, aiming above the trajectory to account for the drop. Momentum is an effect, not a cause. What caused the momentum if not gravity. A ball thrown in space, where there is no gravitational influences nearby, will continue apace, but a gravity pull behind its path will slow it down. When a comet is leaving your Solar System, it is heading at an essentially straight line away. Gravity behind the comet slows it down, and thus the momentum disappears.
Humans see but what is essentially the end result of a comet's orbit, or at least that portion of the orbit that involves the Sun's gravity. The tiny comet, dark until it enters the Solar System where it flares under the influence of the Sun, cannot be located by humans while it is out in space. They assume that the orbit is broader or at least as broad, when out in space, as that seen when the comet becomes visible. It is not. As we have explained in detailing the 12th Planet's entry into the Solar System, comets aim for the Sun, and if influenced away from the Sun by any factor, adjust their orbit away from the Sun. Then, as they near the Sun and, caught in the grip of this giant's gravity pull, accelerate, the increasing speed allows them to come closer. Humans only see that part of the orbit where the initial adjustment away from the Sun has already occurred. They see but half the picture.
The human argument that the long orbit can be determined by the angle of entry, the
parabolic curve, is therefore absurd. Some long period comets have several foci, and some
only one. Just how does blind man, peeping up from a planet he cannot leave, looking out
from a Solar System he has never left, know how many foci this or that comet has? Since a
parabola and even an ellipse smoothes to an essentially straight line, how do they know
how far that straight line goes before a turn around is effected? They do not. They are
guessing.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])
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