On The Road To Roswell 2007: A Discussion With Dr. Tom Van Flandern

American Chronicle ^ | Thursday, June 7, 2007 | interviewed by Thomas Horn

[SunkenCiv]

HORN: What are some examples of genuine predictions made by the exploded planet hypothesis, or EPH?

VAN FLANDERN: Here is a list of ten major predictions that have now been validated but for which the results were unknown at the time the predictions were made:

• that asteroids and comets should be identical types of bodies except for asteroids losing most of their volatiles because of long-term solar heating
• that these asteroids and comets would have "numerous and commonplace" satellites of their own
• that the water in meteorites would be salt water rather than pristine water
• that high-resolution views of irregular asteroids would show numerous boulders and roll marks from the tidal decay of satellite orbits
• that predictions of meteor storms would be possible if one assumes the meteors escape from orbit around a comet nucleus instead of by ejection from the nucleus
• that most asteroid orbits will have a lower limit to eccentricity that increases to either side of the explosion distance from the Sun
• that "new" comets will all appear to come from a similar great distance, arriving on orbits with period equal to the time since the most recent explosion: 3.2 million years
• that the velocity with which comets appear to "split" at various distances from the Sun will be consistent with the escape velocity of objects previously orbiting the comet's nucleus
• that very slowly rotating moons will get blackened by the blast wave on only one side, and those with tilted rotation axes will get blackened on only one pole
• that the first sample return from a comet would show evidence of minerals found typically on planets in the inner solar system, not just minerals that can form in a very cold environment in space far from the Sun

[SunkenCiv]

the X also indicates eXploding planets. :')

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[BenLurkin]

How exactly does a planet “explode”?

[BenLurkin]

This is fun!

http://ebtx.com/mars/marstube.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Well, for one thing, there's no sound when it does (at least, not from the viewpoint of another planet or a spacecraft) -- unlike what we're used to in sci-fi shows...

TVF attempts to answer this in a few different ways, but that's always been a problem for the model. He's convinced because of the good fit between observations and his model (the ten things above, etc). Comet focusing is also explained by one version (Matese') of planet X (that is, an unknown, large planet is out past Neptune, kickin' the comets into the inner solar system). My view is that there are a series of explanations for each of these observations, although I don't necessarily reject the idea of exploding bodies.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, TVF's attachment to the "Face on Mars" nonsense makes him look like a crank, and appears to me to be a detriment to his otherwise highly recommended book. :')

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Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated by Tom Van Flandern

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[SunkenCiv]

John J. Matese
Emeritus Professor of Physics
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

john matese comets

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[Fred Nerks]

http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/cydonia/asom/artifact_html/default.htm

Artificial Structures on Mars.

Dolphin, Arrow, various symbols, triangles...maybe, maybe not, IMO the question remains open.

[SunkenCiv]

My personal favorites from that collection:

http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/cydonia/asom/artifact_html/slide.asp?image=42

http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/cydonia/asom/artifact_html/slide.asp?image=44

My personal favorites not from that collection:

http://www.astronomynotes.com/solarsys/pics/valentine-mars.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/800000/images/_801622_happy_face300.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

john murray brown dwarf (more on comet focusing):

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