Jack L
In my haste I gave the Moon's sidereal period as " ... more precisely
27.321661 days ". This is wrong -- it is 27.321662 days. Just type
that number into Google and you'll get a plethora of responses!
Doesn't change anything though.
Paul D
----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Deema <paul_deema@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, 28 April, 2008 6:51:08 PM
Subject: [geocentrism] Re: love-the-truth.net
Jack L
The Moon orbits the Earth once in 27.322 days (note the error in your
source) approx -- more precisely 27.321661 days
(http://www.synapses.co.uk/astro/moon2.html). As such, it traverses
360 deg / 27.321661 d = 13.17636 deg per day or 9.15025 * 10^-3 deg
per minute.
The Sun is 150 * 10^6 km distant and has a diameter of 1.3927 *
10^6 km thus it subtends an angle of atan(1.3927 * 10^6 / 150 * 10^6)
= 531.957 * 10^-3 deg or a little over half a degree. This means that
a point on the Moon's limb will take about 58 minutes from first point
of contact to last point of contact as it crosses the Sun's disk
during a solar eclipse -- 531.957 * 10^-3 / 9.15025 * 10^-3 = 58.1359
min. The time of totality is short, never more than about seven
minutes (from memory). The Moon's diameter is 3476 km and its distance
is 384400 km. I'll let you do the calculations to verify the time of
totality.
The Moon's orbit is inclined to Earth's orbit by 5.1454 deg
(http://www.krysstal.com/solarsys_moon.html). This is why eclipses are
rare in the heliocentric model. It's so easy to check this, I do
wonder at how so many geocentrists keep making this appallingly
glaring error. Your quote is almost word for word what I remember from
another site which sadly I cannot recall.
http://www.reformation.org/stationary-earth.html says it too -- "In
the heliocentric system it is IMPOSSIBLE to have phases of the moon
without having a major solar and lunar eclipse at least twice every
month." I tried to explain this to him but he won't talk to you if you
don't agree with him. Check in particular his illustration of the
Moon's umbra. I think most geocentrist sites quote each other as
authorities.
Paul D
----- Original Message ----
From: Jack Lewis <jack.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, 27 April, 2008 4:00:52 PM
Subject: [geocentrism] Re: love-the-truth.net
This is one for Regner.
Below is a copy from the website mentioned below. What do you say Regner?
Jack
*/
/**/Solar Eclipses
/**Since the earth does not rotate, then the moon cannot be orbiting
the earth once every 27.332 days. It is orbiting
the earth clockwise once every 24 hours and 50 minutes. According to
the heliocentric model, there would have
to be a solar eclipse every time there is a new moon! Additionally,
if the moon was moving as slowly as they say
it is, when it blocks the sun during a solar eclipse, the sun should
stay blocked for hours! Likewise, when a lunar
eclipse occurs, because the earth is four times the size of the moon,
the earth should block the moon from being
lit for at least a couple of days! And this time the rotating earth
can't save them, because it has no bearing on
the relative position of the sun and moon!
*
Bernie Brauer wrote:
*/"Trying to enlighten people to the truth, that this unbelievable
hoax has been pulled off against mankind, won't be met with much
respect. In fact, prepare to be considered a lunatic. All I can say
is, who cares? The truth is the truth, and the reality is that we've
all bit the big one on this. God told us in the Revelation that an
angel would appear and make a declaration to all mankind that they
should worship the One who made the Heavens and the Earth. (
Revelation 14:7 ) He appears right before the angel that announces
the fall of Babylon the Great. It's right about the time that Babylon
goes down that God will let mankind know what a rotating Earth is
like when he rocks the world to its foundations. It would all go down
together: Everything from the moon-landing hoax to the Cold War Hoax
to the Holocaust to create Israel hoax, the whole Illuminati/Jesuit
flim-flam of mankind. On that day all those who are knowing their God
will be rewarded richly for their faithfulness and for waiting on
Him." more HERE
<http://www.love-the-truth.net/biblical_universe.html>./*
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