HOLLOW EARTH SKYVIEWS MARCH 21, 2015
HOLLOW
EARTH - SKYVIEWS - (REPORT BELOW)
Edmond Halley in 1692 put forth the idea of
Earth consisting of a hollow shell about 800 km (
500 mi) thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core, about the diameters of the planets
Venus, Mars, and
Mercury.
Atmospheres separate these shells, and each shell has its own magnetic poles. The spheres rotate at different speeds. Halley proposed this scheme in order to explain anomalous compass readings. He envisaged the atmosphere inside as luminous (and possibly inhabited) and speculated that escaping gas caused the
Aurora Borealis.
De
Camp and Ley have claimed (in their
Lands Beyond) that
Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun 1,
000 km (620 mi) across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilization but they provide no references; indeed,
Euler did not propose a hollow-Earth, but there is a slightly related thought experiment.
De Camp and Ley also claim that
Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named
Pluto and Proserpine (this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later).
Leslie did propose a hollow Earth in his 1829
Elements of
Natural Philosophy (pp. 449–453), but does not mention interior suns.
Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of
Creek Indians to a series of caverns near the
Red River above the junction of the
Mississippi river. According to Milfort the original
Creek Indian ancestors are believed to have emerged out to the surface of the earth in ancient times from the caverns. Milfort also claimed the caverns they saw "could easily contain 15,000 – 20,000 families.
In 1818,
John Cleves Symmes, Jr. suggested that the Earth consisted of a hollow shell about 1,
300 km (810 mi) thick, with openings about 2,300 km (1,400 mi) across at both poles with 4 inner shells each open at the poles. Symmes became the most famous of the early
Hollow Earth proponents. He proposed making an expedition to the
North Pole hole, thanks to efforts of one of his followers,
James McBride.
United States president John Quincy Adams indicated he would approve of this but he left office before this could occur.
The new President of the United States,
Andrew Jackson, halted the attempt.
Jeremiah Reynolds also delivered lectures on the "Hollow Earth" and argued for an expedition.
Reynolds went on an expedition to
Antarctica himself but missed joining the
Great U.S. Exploring
Expedition of 1838–1842, even though that venture was a result of his agitation.
An early twentieth-century proponent of hollow Earth,
William Reed, wrote
Phantom of the Poles in
1906. He supported the idea of a hollow Earth, but without interior shells or inner sun.
Hollow earth theorists have claimed a number of different locations for the entrances which lead inside the earth. Other than the
North and South poles, entrances in locations which have been cited include:
Paris in
France, Staffordshire in
England,
Montreal in
Canada,
Hangchow in
China, and the
Amazon Rainforest.
STAR DATE UPDATE:
March 21,
2015:
Moon and
Mars
The planet Mars perches close to the right of the crescent Moon shortly after sunset this evening. The little planet is a bit tough to see through the twilight, but binoculars can help you pick it out.
The moon will occult
Uranus as seen from easternmost
Brazil, central
Africa, the
Middle East, and western
Asia.
March 22, 2015: Moon and
Venus
The crescent Moon and Venus, the “evening star,” stage a beautiful encounter this evening. They stand side by side as the Sun sets. They are an especially beautiful sight before darkness falls, when they are immersed in the glow of twilight.
Traffic Report on 20 March '15
Five objects reported inside ten LD
Five asteroids are reported traveling less than ten lunar distances (LD) from Earth today. Risk-listed 2015 EG7 comes its closest to Earth this time around, reaching 2.72 LD at
2126 UT, as does NHATS target 2015 FF, coming to 4.15 LD at 2027 UT. 2015 FK is headed away from 3
.82 to 4.54 LD, NHATS target 2015 EZ6 is outbound from
5.15 to 5.83 LD, and 2015 FM comes inside our ten-LD reporting "bubble," slipping in from 12.16 to 9.38 LD.
Headed our way next, NHATS target 2015 FC comes inside the bubble tomorrow and 2015 FP enters on
March 26th.
This report was generated at 1637
UTC with first follow-up for 2015 FK, 2015 FF, and 2015 FC in today's
DOU MPEC along with follow-up for 2015 FM, 2015 EG7, and departed objects 2015 EP and risk-listed intruder 2015 ET.
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