Subject: Where In The World Did The Earth Come? Part 3. Nov. 8, 2008.
This showed how the size of this Earth grew.
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The gas-contraction nucleuses of the other ten planets soon reached
the stage of solidification and so began to draw to themselves
increasing quantities of the meteoric matter circulating in near-by
space. The worlds of the solar system thus had a double origin:
nucleuses of gas condensation later on augmented
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by the capture of enormous quantities of meteors. Indeed they still
continue to capture meteors, but in greatly lessened numbers.
The planets do not swing around the sun in the equatorial plane of
their solar mother, which they would do if they had been thrown off
by solar revolution. Rather, they travel in the plane of the Angona
solar extrusion, which existed at a considerable angle to the plane
of the sun's equator.
While Angona was unable to capture any of the solar mass, your sun
did add to its metamorphosing planetary family some of the
circulating space material of the visiting system. Due to the intense
gravity field of Angona, its tributary planetary family pursued
orbits of considerable distance from the dark giant; and shortly
after the extrusion of the solar system ancestral mass and while
Angona was yet in the vicinity of the sun, three of the major planets
of the Angona system swung so near to the massive solar system
ancestor that its gravitational pull, augmented by that of the sun,
was sufficient to overbalance the gravity grasp of Angona and to
permanently detach these three tributaries of the celestial wanderer.
All of the solar system material derived from the sun was
originally endowed with a homogeneous direction of orbital swing, and
had it not been for the intrusion of these three foreign space bodies,
all solar system material would still maintain the same direction of
orbital movement. As it was, the impact of the three Angona
tributaries injected new and foreign directional forces into the
emerging solar system with the resultant appearance of retrograde
motion. Retrograde motion in any astronomic system is always
accidental and always appears as a result of the collisional impact
of foreign space bodies. Such collisions may not always produce
retrograde motion, but no retrograde ever appears except in a system
containing m***** which have diverse origins.
"6. THE SOLAR SYSTEM STAGE--THE PLANET-FORMING ERA"
Subsequent to the birth of the solar system a period of dimini****ng
solar disgorgement ensued. Decreasingly, for another five hundred
thousand years, the sun continued to pour forth dimini****ng volumes
of matter into surrounding space. But during these early times of
erratic orbits, when the surrounding bodies made their nearest
approach to the sun, the solar parent was able to recapture a large
****tion of this meteoric material.
The planets nearest the sun were the first to have their
revolutions slowed down by tidal friction. Such gravitational
influences also contribute to the stabilization of planetary orbits
while acting as a brake on the rate of planetary-axial revolution,
causing a planet to revolve ever slower until axial revolution
ceases, leaving one hemisphere of the planet always turned toward the
sun or larger body, as is illustrated by the planet Mercury and by
the moon, which always turns the same face toward Urantia.
When the tidal frictions of the moon and the earth become
equalized, the earth will always turn the same hemisphere toward the
moon, and the day and month will be analogous--in length about
forty-seven days. When such stability of orbits is attained, tidal
frictions will go into reverse action, no longer driving the moon
farther away from the earth but gradually drawing the satellite
toward the planet. And then, in that far-distant future when the moon
approaches to within about eleven thousand miles of the earth, the
gravity action of the
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latter will cause the moon to disrupt, and this tidal-gravity
explosion will shatter the moon into small particles, which may
assemble about the world as rings of matter resembling those of
Saturn or may be gradually drawn into the earth as meteors.
If space bodies are similar in size and density, collisions may
occur. But if two space bodies of similar density are relatively
unequal in size, then, if the smaller progressively approaches the
larger, the disruption of the smaller body will occur when the radius
of its orbit becomes less than two and one-half times the radius of
the larger body.
Collisions among the giants of space are rare indeed, but these
gravity-tidal explosions of lesser bodies are quite common.
Shooting stars occur in swarms because they are the fragments of
larger bodies of matter which have been disrupted by tidal gravity
exerted by near-by and still larger space bodies. Saturn's rings are
the fragments of a disrupted satellite. One of the moons of Jupiter
is now approaching dangerously near the critical zone of tidal
disruption and, within a few million years, will either be claimed by
the planet or will undergo gravity-tidal disruption.
The fifth planet of the solar system of long, long ago traversed an
irregular orbit, periodically making closer and closer approach to
Jupiter until it entered the critical zone of gravity-tidal
disruption, was swiftly fragmentized, and became the present-day
cluster of asteroids.
4,000,000,000 years ago witnessed the organization of the Jupiter
and Saturn systems much as observed today except for their moons,
which continued to increase in size for several billions of years.
In fact, all of the planets and satellites of the solar system are
still growing as the result of continued meteoric captures.
3,500,000,000 years ago the condensation nucleuses of the other ten
planets were well formed, and the cores of most of the moons were
intact, though some of the smaller satellites later united to make
the present-day larger moons. This age may be regarded as the era
of planetary assembly.
3,000,000,000 years ago the solar system was functioning much as it
does today. Its members continued to grow in size as space meteors
continued to pour in upon the planets and their satellites at a
prodigious rate.
About this time your solar system was placed on the physical
registry of Nebadon and given its name, Monmatia.
2,500,000,000 years ago the planets had grown immensely in size.
Urantia was a well-developed sphere about one tenth its present mass
and was still growing rapidly by meteoric accretion.
All of this tremendous activity is a normal part of the making of
an evolutionary world on the order of Urantia and constitutes the
astronomic preliminaries to the setting of the stage for the
beginning of the physical evolution of such worlds of space in
preparation for the life adventures of time.
7. THE METEORIC ERA--THE VOLCANIC AGE THE PRIMITIVE PLANETARY
ATMOSPHERE
Throughout these early times the space regions of the solar system
were swarming with small disruptive and condensation bodies, and in
the absence
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of a protective combustion atmosphere such space bodies crashed
directly on the surface of Urantia. These incessant impacts kept the
surface of the planet more or less heated, and this, together with
the increased action of gravity as the sphere grew larger, began to
set in operation those influences which gradually caused the heavier
elements, such as iron, to settle more and more toward the center of
the planet.
2,000,000,000 years ago the earth began decidedly to gain on the
moon. Always had the planet been larger than its satellite, but there
was not so much difference in size until about this time, when
enormous space bodies were captured by the earth. Urantia was then
about one fifth its present size and had become large enough to hold
the primitive atmosphere which had begun to appear as a result of the
internal elemental contest between the heated interior and the
cooling crust.
Definite volcanic action dates from these times. The internal heat
of the earth continued to be augmented by the deeper and deeper
burial of the radioactive or heavier elements brought in from space
by the meteors. The study of these radioactive elements will reveal
that Urantia is more than one billion years old on its surface. The
radium clock is your most reliable timepiece for making scientific
estimates of the age of the planet, but all such estimates are too
short because the radioactive materials open to your scrutiny are all
derived from the earth's surface and hence represent Urantia's
comparatively recent acquirements of these elements.
1,500,000,000</I> years ago the earth was two thirds its present
size, while the moon was nearing its present mass.
Earth's rapid gain over the moon in size enabled it to begin the
slow robbery of the little atmosphere which its satellite originally
had.
Volcanic action is now at its height. The whole earth is a
veritable fiery inferno, the surface resembling its earlier molten
state before the heavier metals gravitated toward the center. This is
the volcanic age. Nevertheless, a crust, consisting chiefly of the
comparatively lighter granite, is gradually forming. The stage is
being set for a planet which can someday sup****t life.
Part 3.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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