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<br />Lotto,
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Lotto Cheatah</i>
<br />This model also explains how Mars could have once had a temperate climate, rivers, oceans and life! By combining this model with Kepler's law we find Mars where Earth now orbits. The birth of Mercury pushed it out to its current orbit.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Mercury is a former moon of Venus and has not been in independent orbit about the sun long enough to have affected the orbits of Venus, Earth and Mars to the extent suggested. In any case it is probably too small to do so at all.
JR
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Moons are gravity captured planet decimals. Mercury is too big to be a moon for Venus. It would decay and collide, not fly off into its own orbit, so it couldn't have happened that way.
There is a book called "World's In Collision" that claims Venus was itself a captured rogue.
It is good to keep an open mind and realize that throughout the history of Science, most things that we declared as absolute truths have subsequently been proven false. Recall that at one time the Earth was flat. If you went too far you would fall off the edge! It was at the center of the universe, which all revolved around it.
Remember the four elements? Earth, Air, Fire and Water? These "old" absolute truths seems so absurdly ridiculous now, don't they.
The Planet birthing theory explains observations that otherwise remain anomalous. It deserves consideration. It may even have something, perhaps everything, to do with the Mayan calendar, end of time, et all.
Yep, being kicked out to Mar's obit via a planet birthing would do it, all right!
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