 | |  |  | | | | | | | | | | | | |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
| |
| Author |
Message |
okiejack
B.V. Info-a-holic
Joined: Sep 29, 2001
Posts: 8767
|
 Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:04 am Post subject: Sol's Companion |
 |
|
| |
Public release date: 12-Sep-2005
[ Print Article | E-mail Article | Close Window ]
Contact: Warwick Associates
sws@vom.com
707-939-9212
Binary Research Institute
Sun has binary partner, may affect the Earth
The new book, Lost Star of Myth and Time, documents the powerful influence of a companion to the Sun
Los Angeles, CA (September 1, 2005) _ The ground-breaking and richly illustrated new book, Lost Star of Myth and Time, marries modern astronomical theory with ancient star lore to make a compelling case for the profound influence on our planet of a companion star to the sun. Author and theorist, Walter Cruttenden, presents the evidence that this binary orbit relationship may be the cause of a vast cycle causing the Dark and Golden Ages common in the lore of ancient cultures.
Researching archaeological and astronomical data at the unique think tank, the Binary Research Institute, Cruttenden concludes that the movement of the solar system plays a more important role in life than people realize, and he challenges some preconceived notions:
The phenomenon known as the precession of the equinox, fabled as a marker of time by ancient peoples, is not due to a local wobbling of the Earth as modern theory portends, but to the solar system's gentle curve through space.
This movement of the solar system occurs because the Sun has a companion star; both stars orbit a common center of gravity, as is typical of most double star systems. The grand cycle–the time it takes to complete one orbit––is called a "Great Year," a term coined by Plato.
Cruttenden explains the affect on earth with an analogy: "Just as the spinning motion of the earth causes the cycle of day and night, and just as the orbital motion of the earth around the sun causes the cycle of the seasons, so too does the binary motion cause a cycle of rising and falling ages over long periods of time, due to increasing and decreasing electromagnet effects generated by our sun and other nearby stars."
While the findings in Lost Star are controversial, astronomers now agree that most stars are likely part of a binary or multiple star system. Dr. Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at UC Berkeley and research physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is an early proponent of a companion star to our sun; he prefers a 26 million year orbit period. Cruttenden uses 24,000 years and says the change in angular direction can be seen in the precession of the equinox.
Lost Star of Myth and Time expands on the author's award-winning PBS documentary film "The Great Year," narrated by actor James Earl Jones. The book brings intriguing new evidence to the theory of our binary companion star and an age old mystery--––the precession of the equinox.
###
Title: Lost Star of Myth and Time
Pub Date: October, 2005
ISBN: 0-9767631-1-7
Author: Walter Cruttenden
Publisher: St. Lynn's Press, www.stlynnspress.com
List Price: $19.95
Format: Paperback, 6" x 9", 370 pgs, 70 photos/illustrations
Distributors: New Leaf, Ingram, DeVorss, Baker & Taylor
Information: www.loststarbook.com
Order Now: (412) 466-0790 |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
| Author |
Message |
Aquatank
B.V. Info Seeker
Joined: Sep 27, 2001
Posts: 3809
Location: USA
|
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
| |
The star is known as Nemesis "The Death Star", the hypothesis has been around for quite some time.
| Quote: |
The Question
(Submitted November 30, 1996)
Do you have any new information on the Nemesis Star,the so called companion star to our Sun ?
The Answer
To recap the story of Nemesis (see, e.g., 1990 October issue of Scientific American): in 1984, Raup & Sepkoski claimed that mass extinctions, like the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, occurred every 32 million years. Since the favored theory for the demise of dinosaurs is an asteroid or cometary impact, the periodicity would suggests some mechanism to disturb the comets in the Oort cloud every 32 million years. Richard Muller and others hypothesized that a faint companion star, nicknamed Nemesis, that orbits the Sun every 32 million years, could explain this.
However, many geologists are not convinced that mass extinctions are periodic, so they see no need for such a star. Nevertheless, Muller and colleagues have embarked on the difficult search for a possible, dim companion to the Sun. The most recent report I could find on this was a conference paper from 1994 (Carlson et al 1994 in "New Developments Regarding the KT Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History", Houston Univ., p19-20). Here are some sentences off the abstract: "Unfortunately, standard four-color photometry does not distinguish between red dwarfs and giants. ... Every star of the correct spectral type and magnitude must be scrutinized. ... We are currently scrutinizing 3098 fields, which we believe contain all possible red dwarf candidates in the northern hemisphere. ... The software is now completed and we are eliminating stars every clear night." I presume the search is still on-going but have not yielded a positive detection.
A good description and more references can be found at: http://www.nineplanets.org/hypo.html#nemesis
You may also want to check out the article in the 1990 October issue of Scientific American
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/961130b1.html |
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
okiejack
B.V. Info-a-holic
Joined: Sep 29, 2001
Posts: 8767
|
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| |
Yeah Aquatank there is a lot of speculation on Nemesis that spans a lot of time. There's been speculation that Nemesis is a neutron star, brown dwarf, or black hole and this is the reason we haven't seen it yet. But I figure the neutron star and black hole ideas are defunct now because both a neutron star and a black hole emit lots of radiation. So we should have noticed it by now.
So now we've got Nemesis and Planet-X. Very interesting! |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
tofu_kronos
B.V. Info Seeker
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
Posts: 3813
Location: the netherlands, d00d where´s mi bong
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
| |
| This is big bs if it was a neutron star we would be death because of the radiation, if it was a blackhole you would see a trail of solar gasses moving to the blackhole and we would be death. the sun has no companion. I'm sure of that. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
okiejack
B.V. Info-a-holic
Joined: Sep 29, 2001
Posts: 8767
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:33 am Post subject: |
|
|
| |
| Well I'm not convinced one way or the other yet. Sol's companion may be a brown dwarf or a normal star that is hidden from us by dust or maybe we just haven't spotted it yet. There is a bunch of stuff floating around out there in a large amount of three dimensional space. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
Aquatank
B.V. Info Seeker
Joined: Sep 27, 2001
Posts: 3809
Location: USA
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:57 am Post subject: |
|
|
| |
You know I'm not so sure the Sol might not have companion, the astronmers have found a new class of planets out there recently terrestrials as big as gas giants. Being Terrestrials means having higher densities than a gas giant, and orbit far enough out or on a parallel course (that'd be really hard to detect) would explain it's lack of being found.
As far X or 10 is concerned there's the PlanetKBO Sedna followed by KBO 2003 EL61 "Santa" (2/3 size of Pluto) and it's moon "Rudolph" then the eleventh PlanetKBO 2003UB313 "Lila"/"Xena" (it's about 25% bigger than Pluto) and its moon "Gabrielle". |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
scientificmind
B.V. Lurker
Joined: Mar 14, 2002
Posts: 461
|
| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| |
Dear Aquatank, Okiejack,
It is through my own personal research that I do believe not only does our Sun have a low-mass companion star (perhaps a dead star) as it's companion binary star, but also, that there may be a small brown dwarf star which moves in an erratic orbit as part of our solar system. Very recently, a small brown dwarf star, only about four times the mass of Juiter, was found by astronomers in a relatively close solar system to ours. Not only are binary star systems quite common in our galaxy, but three-star systems seem to be common as well. We know of one binary star system where both stars are still gravitaionally attracted to each other from an astounding distance of 1.5 light years. We have a lot yet to discover even about our own solar system...SM. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
Know_One
B.V. Info Seeker
Joined: May 22, 2005
Posts: 2081
|
| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| |
| Quote: |
| It is through my own personal research that I do believe not only does our Sun have a low-mass companion star (perhaps a dead star) as it's companion binary star, but also, that there may be a small brown dwarf star which moves in an erratic orbit as part of our solar system. |
Please... you are not really trying to pretend that reading a few notes from other web sites constitutes "personal research" are you? 
seriously have a little respect for those that actually do put in the effort. |
|
_________________
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~George Washington
War is fear cloaked in courage.
~General William Westmoreland |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
okiejack
B.V. Info-a-holic
Joined: Sep 29, 2001
Posts: 8767
|
| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| |
That's interesting ScientificMind.
KnowOne has problems with social interaction because of some inadequacies within his own personality. We've tried to help him but have been unable to dispell his negative attitude as of yet. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
Left_of_Britain
B.V. Lurker
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 40
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| |
ScientificMind an interesting little read. Any chance you could point us less informed in the direction of some more material? Would be interested to read some.
Thanks in advance if you can help. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
scientificmind
B.V. Lurker
Joined: Mar 14, 2002
Posts: 461
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:40 am Post subject: |
|
|
| |
Left of Britain, Okiejack,
I think it's apparent, based upon our recent planetary body discoveries, that the cosmological model of our solar system is much more complex than previous thought. Sedna is being closely studied within government circles, as well as within certain closed astronomical communities within the U.S. Several satellite launches and retrieval of information are, for the first time, explicitly to study the motions of the Milky Way Galaxy, and our solar system wihin the Milky Way's path; and specifically to accurately measure Earth's precession of the equinox-these measurements being critical in detecting any "gravitation perturbations" on any bodies in the solar system. According to various government sources, (which I have no way personally to verify outside of their word), even a "triangulation" of these space objects has been successful with previous satellites as markers. There is a continual growing number of well respected scientists that have taken notice recently of many gravitational anomalies in space that quite simply should not be there without SOME object(s) of mass being the culprit. I have my own theories and insight, based in part by my life experience in the service of my country, and by many friends still within that service who disclose to me, in confidence, their own experiences and beliefs. To say that there is "a" object out there is to simplify the cosmological model of our solar system, when it seems our recent data supports much more complexity in our near space neighborhood. It is any interesting subject...and it seems the ancients and their information to this day is taken seriously by not only our government, but by many scientific circles around the globe...SM. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
bloo
B.V. VIP - Contributor
Joined: Apr 06, 2003
Posts: 6964
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
| |
| The Nemesis theory would certainly explain the regular interval (every 25-30 million years or so) of mass extinctions on Earth. The Nemesis theory also coincides very nicely with large impact craters on earth; craters that have been dated to coincide with the rotational period of Nemesis passing through the Oort cloud. The jury's still out on this theory, but it is possible. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
scientificmind
B.V. Lurker
Joined: Mar 14, 2002
Posts: 461
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| |
Bloo,
The "nemesis" theory was literally taken from ancient Babylonian writings when first investigated by today's scientists. Carl Sagan, unbeknownst to the general public, was keenly interested in whether the Babylonians were right, and was constantly approaching astronomers who were studying the possibilities. The Babylonian's believed that our sun has a "twin dark star", or a sun proportional in size to our sun that never achieved nuclear fussion. Some theories, based upon mathematical calculations from recent observations of several solar system objects (planets, comets, asteroids), say this "dark star" could be up to 1.5 light years from our sun and still be gravitationally bound...similar to but not as far away as Alpha Centauri C. But the Planet X hypothesis is a separate and distinct theory. In recent times it has somehow been interwined with Sitchin's "Nibiru" theory. The reality is that the term "Planet X" was coined by Claude Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto, in reference to mathematical calculations he made to explain the apparent gravitational perturbations of Uranus, Neptune, and various comet trajectories. He never found "X", but the search was on and continues today. There is a third theory being closely examined...that the Sumerian's "planet of the crossing", described in detail as a glowing red "planet". orbits this "dark star", and it's elliptical orbit approaches within the orbit of pluto and Uranus every 3600 years...the time it takes to orbit our "twin" sun. Many have postulated that this "red" planet is actually a small red dwarf star with moons of it's own. It is also interesting to note that the calculations for the complete orbit of our sun's binary "dark star"partner seems to coincide, for instance, with Bauval's nemesis "extinction" flap rate at 26 million years. There is an article today that talks about and reconfirms that there "seems" to be good possibilities that large objects may exist in the outer regions of our solar system, even well beyond the Kuiper bely, such as Sedna. http://news.aol.com/story/_a/large-planet-x-may-lurk-beyond-pluto/20080619152309990002?icid=100214839x1204424817x ...SM. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
okiejack
B.V. Info-a-holic
Joined: Sep 29, 2001
Posts: 8767
|
| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:39 am Post subject: |
|
|
| |
| Thank you ScientificMind. I had forgotten about this thread. Thanks for bringing it back |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Author |
Message |
scientificmind
B.V. Lurker
Joined: Mar 14, 2002
Posts: 461
|
| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| |
| No need for thanks, okiejack...you've brought up an interesting topic that I personally am studying presently. Cheers...SM. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
| | | | | | | |
| |
blocks-left.jpg
blocks-left.jpg
blocks-left.jpg
|  |
Online Stats: 
