Was Stichen onto something???
I have a collection of books that have been reading over the last few years. The books together make up a series called "The Earth Chronicles".
I have blogged about this interesting series of books before. A short sypnosis of the series is that the author believes that at one point in ancient history there was a massive planet that "fell" or was dragged into our solar system by gravitational forces of some kind. This planet has a very "elongated" orbit and as it went through our ancient solar system, it passed through the area of the system that was then occupied by another planet, which was situated between Jupiter and Mars. Well, as this "rouge" planet wondered through our heavens, it supposedly "bumped" into another planet that was in it's path.
He surmised through ancient Sumerian texts that this planet was called "Tiamant" and that it was split pretty much in half by the collision of this gigantic "wondering planet" that was visiting our solar system. The result of this collision was a massive restructuring of the heavenly realm: Tiamant was obliterated and part of that ancient planet was thrown out of it's orbit and "resettled" with a gaping hole on it's surface that was eventually filled with massive amounts of water and another part was turned into a smaller satellite hovering close to it. The rest of that planet was reduced to fragments of rock that today are commonly referred to as asteroids....
...Thus the creation of our Earth and the asteroid belt. At least that is what this series of books by Zacheria Stitchen surmises.
Now his theories may be validated by the following article that I found on the website of "New Scientist". An introduction to the story from New scientist follows (You have to subscribe to the magazine to read the full text of the story...but even the intro gives a good introduction of this theory):
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Missing: a fifth terrestrial planet
08 April 2006
Maggie McKee
Magazine issue 2546
A FIFTH terrestrial planet may once have orbited between Mars and Jupiter. Although gravitational disturbances would have sent the planet hurtling into the sun or out into space long ago, traces of this long-gone world may still be visible in part of the asteroid belt today.
Recent simulations have suggested that the gas giants of our solar system formed with circular orbits but moved into their more elongated paths about 4 billion years ago - 700 million years after the solar system formed. While the gas giants were in circular orbits, rocky planets should have formed in stable orbits out to a distance of 2.2 astronomical units (1 AU = 1 Earth-Sun distance).
However, there are no planets between Mars, which lies at 1.5 AU from the sun, and Jupiter at 5.2 AU. That puzzled Sean Raymond of the University of Colorado in Boulder and John Chambers of the Carnegie ...
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Was Stichen onto something with his theories?
I wonder either of these guys have read Stichen's books?
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