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Re: Hale-Bopp THEN and NOW

Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: Re: Hale-Bopp THEN and NOW
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:34:27 GMT

In article <[email protected]> Greg Neill writes:
> In the case of an orbiting body, the line of force is always
> centrally directed, that is, along the line joining the center
> of masses of the two bodies in question. It just so happens
> that the forces that a body free to move in a potential field
> such as gravity experiences are such that conic sectional
> geodesics are produced.
> [email protected] (Greg Neill)

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Apparently, objects in orbit are following the law of Rock-on-the-End-of-a-String as well as the Law of the Magical Ellipse. A body free to move in a gravity field always moves in conic sections? Is this what happens when an object thrown from an airplanes plummets to Earth? Are they not in a gravity field?

  1. How does your theory of how an orbiting object behaves line up with vector analysis? This might look good on paper for a circular orbit, but what happens when the orbit becomes a long ellipse? The two vectors producing a curve are pushing the comet away from the Sun and to one side, Side A as it is leaving the Solar System, yet somehow the vector pushing the comet to side A SWITCHES DIRECTION and pushed the comet to Side B far out in space? What occurred for that to happen?
  2. How does your theory hold up against your laws of gravity? An object attracted by another due to gravity HEADS DIRECTLY FOR IT. The comet when out in space, will at all times have MORE reason to move directly for the Sun than to move dramatically to the side. Do your moving airplanes, on a forward thrust parallel to the surface of the Earth, not plummet DIRECTLY to Earth in short order when they lose their wings?
  3. How does your theory hold up against your laws of motion, which state that a moving object moves in a straight line unless perturbed? What perturbation can occur to cause a comet to move from Side A to Side B when out in space? If you had a second focus way out there, and the comet were circling BOTH the Sun and this second focus, then you might have a case, but there is NO second focus, per you, out there. What perturbs the comet out there?

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