Posted on 07/20/2011 3:23:56 PM PDT by MikeD
Indeed they did. They knew of all the planets including knowing the colors of Neptune and Uranus. It was chronicled many times in sculpture and in cuneiform. They also knew of precession and the 12 houses of the zodiac.
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The existence of Pluto wasn’t known to the Sumerians. They were similarly ignorant of Neptune and Uranus. If it were chronicled many times in sculpture and in cuneiform, it would have been remarked on by actual scholars of cuneiform and Sumerian, rather than by Zecharia Sitchin. The fact is, it doesn’t occur even once.
Pluto’s got relatively no competition, so stuff that wanders by (which will be moving fairly slowly in relation to Pluto) is much more likely to be captured, and as a capture would have cockeyed orbits until they either get chucked back out, or run into Pluto or one of its moons, or over a period of time interacting with Pluto and its other moons, wind up in a more regularized orbit.
That said, Neptune’s moon system is haywire, with one of the three largest ones nearly at escape. Neptune’s more massive than Uranus, which has a rotational axis nearly in the ecliptic, but a nice normal moon system. One way to interpret this has been an encounter (sometime in the past) with a passing star. That would of course mean that the Uranian moon system was acquired later, after the encounter which tipped Uranus, but managed to get regularized quickly; Neptune managed to *not* get tipped (although without knowing what its axis was like before this hypothetical encounter, we can’t say that for sure) but nearly had its moons torn away.
Harrington and VanFlandern postulated an encounter with a planetary body possibly still in orbit around our Sun, which caused these phenomena. In addition, Pluto is an escaped moon of Neptune under this scenario.
Keep on ignoring the evidence. It’s right there in front of your eyes, but don’t believe them. If you are going to knock someone’s work, you might want to actually read it first.
Keep on reading the BS, it obviously suits you better.
I will and I'll know the truth.
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