EARTH WAS TAKEN FROM A PLANETARY NURSERY AND MOVED TO THIS SOLAR SYSTEM

Well, when prophets and those with God's plan in visionary view first gave breath to this over 150 years ago, people probably choked on their gum.  The idea that was put forth by the likes of Joseph Smith and Eliza R. Snow, the two Pratt brothers and many others, that this planet and others are actually from another locale in the universe is just wild to contemplate.   Here is the link to the Eliza R. Snow hymn from an earlier post I did on how the everlasting hills shall tremble when we have planetary chaos again in the future:  CLICK LINK AND READ STANZA 1 AND STANZA 12


I love it when science finally catches up with revealed religion.  Read on:

May 22, 2012

A Universe with Billions of Binary Planets?

           



The discovery that there are perhaps billions of solo rogue planets and binary planet systems in the Milky Way alone has led to a new theoretical study by astronomer Hagai Perets and his colleague at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics that proposes a possible answer: the distant planets are not part of the original stellar system - they were captured by the star.

Astronomers know that there are many so-called "free floating planets" in space - planets that have been tossed out of their original solar system by a random gravitational encounter with another planet. Some of these orphan planets have recently been detected. The CfA team calculated that it would be possible for a star to capture one of these orphans if the conditions were right; namely, if the star and planet happen to pass close to each other with only a small velocity difference, and if there are no other massive bodies nearby to interfere with the "adoption." They ran a series of computer simulations to test all these and other possibilities, and they found not only that such a capture was possible, but that a star could even capture several orphan planets.
In fact, they found that sometimes two free floating planets could capture one another and form a binary planet. None of these binaries has yet been seen, although some astronomers think that since Pluto and its moon Charon have such similar masses they are a binary system, although not necessarily one that was captured.
The new results seem to offer a reasonable, if exotic, explanation for some of the complex planetary configurations that have been discovered, and they remind us that nature is full of surprises.
The Daily Galaxy via Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Image credit: With thanks to maelstrom/images/binary-planet
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Incidentally - do we not have a binary system?  Aren't our moon and our planet inextricably tied together in their celestial tracks?