Here's one that I think you'll enjoy, and which I find almost endlessly fascinating. But first, a little background. In my book The Cosmic War I outlined the Exploded Planet Hypothesis of the late astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern, who published a fascinating book on the subject (dark Matter, Missing Planets, and New Comets). Briefly, Dr. Van Flandern revived the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories within astronomy that the asteroid belt are the remains of a planet that exploded some 65,000,000 years ago. That event sent one bit of that planet's debris, according to this … [Read more...]
PLANET X BACK IN THE NEWS
Planet X is back in the news everyone, or at least, is trying to be: Planet X, or Tyche Now that you've read that, let's do a little remembering, because this article is a case study on how modern science - and the reporting of it - is not working. First, we note the reference to the Oort cloud, one of "orthodox astronomy''s" many dogmas. This is supposedly a cloud of space debris and space junk floating out beyond the orbit of Pluto, that accounts for the orbits of comets and their wildly eccentric orbits. According to this theory, the gravitational field of "passing stars" kicks this … [Read more...]