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Mass Vortex TheoryProposed Definition of a Planet
“The Birth of the Earth” provides a new explanation for the way in which a super-huge cloud of atoms developed into the solar system that we see today. This explanation called Mass Vortex Theory suggests a new, more simple definition of a planet.
First: Mass Vortex Theory predicts that all the planets in the same solar system will have orbits that are for all practical purposes in the same plane. Let’s call this plane, the Parent Disc.
Proposed new definition:
An astronomical body/object is a planet if and only if it:
a) orbits a star in the Parent Disc
b) has intrinsic spin
The Parent Disc will usually be the ecliptic which cuts through the sun’s equator. However, Kepler 56 is an example where the plane determined by the parent vortex does not cut through its star’s equator.*
A planet is created when the dense group of iron-heart with its atom-mist exits the Parent Vortex because it has too much mass (or inertia) to follow the curve of the Parent Vortex [cyclone mechanics]. It moves radially outward, away from the center, falling out of the Parent Vortex flow into motion along an orbital path. This is the key behavior that leads to a planet.
The Parent Vortex grabs the porous outer region of a protoplanet as it exits, causing it to spin. Moons do not have intrinsic spin, neither do asteroids in the asteroid belt.
Pluto is an interesting case. It presents the same face to Charon and Charon presents the same face to Pluto. This type of angular momentum with rotation consistently showing one face to axis of rotation is indicative of moons. Pluto does not orbit the sun in the ecliptic, and for this reason alone is not a true planet. The axial tilt associated with the axis of Pluto’s angular momentum is 120° [1]; Venus’ axial tilt is 177° and Uranus is 98° [1]. Most likely, Pluto was formed via the protomoon method [see page 38, Birth of the Earth] and started out as a moon of Illo.
In comparison to the definition proposed here, the current definition of “planet according to the International Astronomical Union is:
An object that:
- orbits the sun
- has sufficient mass to be round, or nearly round
- is not a satellite (moon) of another object
- has removed debris and small objects from the area around its orbit
1 Schombert, Jim; University of Oregon Astronomy 121 Lecture notes,Pluto Orientation diagram
* Most likely, when the inner Vortex Ring flipped to form the star Kepler 56, the next Rings out also moved (instead of maintaining their original orientation) so that the counter-rotating rings comprising this K-56 “sun” shifted around the black hole and did not maintain the original orientation with respect to the Parent Disc.
Water on Mars
Mass Vortex Theory as set forth in “The Birth of the Earth” also helps to answer the curiosity that NASA has about water on Mars.
During compaction, steam (and methane) is given off by the hot mantle and crust. Therefore, Mars has water between its crust and mantle (as explained in “The Birth of the Earth”). Also, while its ice layer was present, Mars had water vapor under the ice layer that condensed as the planet cooled. This condensation fell to the surface of the planet, and collected in depressions. Mars did not have a big basin in its crust, like Earth, so water would have been distributed over the whole surface, but, probably not deep enough to cover hills and elevated regions. Having an ice layer provided a kind of hot house effect which kept the temperature consistently more temperate across the whole planet and supported liquid water. Once Mars’ ice layer was striped away, the water both froze and started evaporating. All the surface ice eventually evaporated. However, some of the molecules in material on the surface could still retain amounts of H2O (hydrates).
News on September 28, 2015, revealed a discovery of some small amounts of salt water on Mars per the image above [image credit: JPL-CALTECH/NASA, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA]. I believe that it will be found that this salt water is due to a chemical reaction. There are salts on Mars that could possibly react at the right temperature with an element from the atmosphere or dust (transported by surface winds) to produce small amounts of salt water.
The desire to find water on Mars is so that it could support human life for Mars pioneers. It is possible. If human drilling capacity improved so that we had the ability to drill through the crust to the water discontinuity layer below [between mantle and crust], then explorers could obtain a source to provide sufficient water.
What I am very interested to learn about is the atmosphere and surface water of Jupiter under Jupiter’s ice layer. Is there enough light getting through at the poles that vegetation is present? Also, what is it like under Saturn’s ice layer?
Atmosphere of Mars in the News
“Birth of the Earth,” page 37, talks about how the atmosphere of a planet starts with the light atoms of the protoplanet that are: a) above the surface of the rocky planet and b) under the ice layer. It is further explained on page 37 that due to the lack of a magnetosphere on both Venus and Mar, the ice layer has been scrubbed away and the atmosphere eroded. The image above from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (a project of NASA) shows an X2 flare and a coronal mass ejection from the Sun which caused energetic particles to be pushed out across the solar system—a stronger, more energetic contribution to the every-day common solar winds.
The week of November 4, 2015, NASA released information to verify that they see the atmosphere of Mars being striped away by the solar winds. Here is a video from Space.com regarding Mars Atmosphere Being ‘Stripped’ By Solar Wind.
From the New York Times article on this matter:
But new readings from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission — Maven, for short — show that when Mars is hit by a solar storm, the ferocious bombardment of particles from the sun strips away the upper atmosphere much more quickly.
…The air disappears in mainly two ways. Sometimes an electron is knocked off an atom in the upper atmosphere, and then the charged atom is accelerated away by the electric and magnetic fields of the solar wind. Particles of air can also be knocked into space through collisions with incoming solar wind particles, like billiard balls.
It is nice to have this rigorous confirmation with details regarding the mechanisms for how the atmosphere-striping behavior happens at the atomic level.
Standard Theory: Sun-First Theory
National Geographic has produced a video that explains what science textbooks currently teach about how Earth and other planets in our solar system formed.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/videos/the-birth-of-earth/
The Standard Theory explanation starts with a nebula (like Mass Vortex Theory). Then it conceives of a situation in which atoms of the nebula move towards the center of gravity—neglecting kinetic energy and overcoming coulomb forces between atoms (which are much stronger than gravity)—so that a situation called “gravitational collapse” is realized. Standard Theory posits that this leads to fusion of hydrogen in the dense ball of material around the center of gravity.
This video picks up with the Standard Theory chronology after this, after the sun formed. Thus, Standard Theory posits that the sun formed before the planets which is why I call it Sun-First Theory.
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