Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused Lunar Cataclysm, Researchers Say

SPACE dot COM ^ | 18 March 2002 ,posted: 03:00 pm ET | By Leonard David, Senior Space Writer

[vannrox]

Interesting.

[RightWhale]

van Flandern says Mars was a moon of the 5th planet, which would have made it the 4th planet at that time. Why did it explode? It may have been a duplicate thread planet.

[null and void]

Quite!

Does timing agree with any major extinction event? Anyone?

[buffyt]

You mean it was simply deleted? Geez.... I hate when that happens.

[buffyt]

Yes it is very interesting.

"Getting back to the Moon with a settlement for resource exploitation is another step forward."

May I take the liberty of suggesting that we send all liberal Democrat politicians and movie stars to the new lunar settlement? I will start a collection to pay for it.

[Lazamataz]

You mean it was simply deleted? Geez.... I hate when that happens.

That's because the Moderators hate redundant posts: The fifth planet was already posted here.

[RightWhale]

Does timing agree with any major extinction event?

This was all before the rise of life on earth. Maybe it was a trigger event.

[T. P. Pole]

Maybe off topic, but how did they age the rocks on the moon. Too old for C14, no fossils for geo column dating. How'd they get the age?

[Free the USA]

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[<1/1,000,000th%]

I'm thinking this'll interest you.

[codebreaker]

So Planet 5 set off the orbit of Mars and part of it crashed into Earth?

[jlogajan]

Does timing agree with any major extinction event?

If there was life before 3.9 billion years, there is no remaining evidence of it. I believe life as we know it didn't appear for another 400 million years or so, far as we can tell. Life forms were very simple for a very long time, single cellular guys for over 2 billion years. The interesting multicellular stuff didn't start until about 500 million years ago. There were occasional mass extinctions during those last 500 million years.

[Capt. Tom]

When I was a kid I remember hearing there were calculations made that posited another planet because of the orbits of existing planets.

They called it Vulcan. Any astronomers remember that story?? - Tom

[ValenB4]

If only they had had the chance to read Al Gore's book, maybe they could have been saved.

[JenB]

Odd; I 'knew' this when I was 10 from reading science fiction. Every time scientists come up with something writers predicted decades ago, I have a good laugh. Thanks for posting this article!

[The UnVeiled Lady]

Must be a slow news day.  Similar theories by the Russian Immanuel Velikovsky were totally discounted.  Even the Dems can't negate the law of conservation of angular momentum.  Sounds like more junk science.

[lwoodham]

Any way to tell when the genetic defect first occured which eventually led to the deviant human race known as Democrats?

[Chad Fairbanks]

Interesting link... one part struck me as odd, though...

The interaction of the Earth and the Moon slows the Earth's rotation by about 2 milliseconds per century. Current research indicates that about 900 million years ago there were 481 18-hour days in a year.

I don't actually think that it's the interaction between the Earth and the Moon that slow's Earth's rotation... I think it's Commie Pinko Leftists. They keep wanting to cut the work week, for the same pay, to create 'more jobs'... and this slows progress, and since we all know that the universe revolves around them, well, I think it's plain to see, that if we don't stop the Leftists, and soon, there will be 962 9-hour days per year...

[satchmodog9]

We need reparations fot the displaced single cell victims of this obvious right wing sponsored event.

[Arkie2]

In an oak cask. Makes good Bourbon.