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   From: mathnphysics-not@bellsouth.net   
      
   Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote in "alt.astronomy", a science   
   newsgroup:   
   > HINT: In order to understand this very short and simple   
   >       article, you need to be able to count from one to   
   >       ten; I know, that's a lot to ask of "astronomers"...   
      
   [giggle]   
      
   [...]   
   >   Not only did Copernicus seek to re-order the heavens,   
   >   he conspicuously ignored Earth's place at the center   
   >   of her caelestial sphere. That was his fatal blunder.   
      
   It's spelled "celestial". By the way Copernicus placed the Sun at the   
   center of the solar system, which is not the celestial sphere which   
   precesses due to Earth's orbit of the Sun. Obviously the Sun is the   
   center of the solar system, which anyone looking at Venus through a   
   telescope can attest to.   
      
   [...]   
   >   Copernicus tried to confuse the heavens, re-numbering   
   >   Earth's caelestial sphere first instead of eighth, as   
   >   Nick renumbered Saturn second instead of seventh, and   
   >   Jupiter third instead of sixth, also renumbering Mars   
   >   fourth instead of fifth, Earth fifth instead of tenth;   
   >   IGNORING THE MOON he renumbers Venus sixth instead of   
   >   third, Mercury seventh instead of second, ad nauseam!   
      
   Bulls--t!   
      
   >   
   >     This first chart summarizes synodic & sidereal   
   >     periods of the planets in mean solar days, and   
      
   If the Earth were at the center of solar system, then the synodical   
   and sidereal periods would be the same. Since they are not, you're wrong.   
      
   [...]   
   >                THE TEN PLANETARY ORBITS   
   >              S#  Pla  Synod  Sider. /TropY   
   >             *10  Plu  366.7  90800.  247.9   
      
   Pluto is not a planet.   
      
   [...]   
   >               4  Sun  -----  365.26  1.000   
      
   The Sun is not a planet.   
      
   [...]   
   >               1  Moo  29.53  27.322  0.075   
      
   The Moon is not a planet.   
      
   [...]   
   > THIS DEMONSTRATES CONCLUSIVELY THAT ancient astronomers   
   > knew full-well that the planets orbit with the Sun, and   
      
   ...until they discovered the telescope, which proved the heliocentric   
   system wrong.   
      
   [...]   
      
   The difference between astronomers and astrologers is that astrologers   
   trust their charts and astronomers trust the facts.   
      
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