Hi all I was just thinking much of my work on Ancient Egypt seems to be dismissed because the actual ratios I use between the planets are called into question and are disputed so I thought ... "why is that ?"
The semi major axis of any orbiting body is simply the average distance from it's sun . Thus Mercury is the closest example and in it's elliptical orbit it's farthest journey from The Sun is 69,816,900 km while it's closest approach is 46,001,200 thus the average is 57,909,100. These are not to be disputed. They are agreed upon by every scientific body one cares to check. Oh perhaps they will vary by a couple of hundred kilometers but but the difference will be minimal.
Here is the present up to date numbers and it is odd because they seem to keep on changing.
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The Sun = Diameter: 1,392,684 km
Mass: 1,989,100,000,000,000,000, 000 billion kg (333,060 x Earth)
Mercury = 57,909,227 km
Venus = 108,209,475 km
Earth = 149,598,262 km
The Moon = Diameter: 3,475 km
Mars = Orbit Period: 686.98 Earth days (1.88 Earth years) Orbit Distance: 227,943,824 km
Ceres = Orbit Distance: 413,700,000 km
Jupiter = Orbit Period: 4,332.82 Earth days (11.86 Earth years) Orbit Distance: 778,340,821 km (5.20 AU)
Saturn = Orbit Period: 10,755.70 Earth days (29.45 Earth years) Orbit Distance: 1,426,666,422 km
Uranus = Orbit Period: 30,687.15 Earth days (84.02 Earth years) Orbit Distance: 2,870,658,186 km
Neptune = Orbit Period: 60,190.03 Earth days (164.79 Earth years) Orbit Distance: 4,498,396,441 km
Pluto = Orbit Period: 247.92065 Earth years Orbit Distance: 5,874,000,000 km
Now if you want to dispute this so far then by all means post what you consider are the true numbers.
Theses are the numbers from 4 years ago:
Mercury = 57,909,050
Venus = 108,208,930
Earth = 149,598,261
Mars = 227.939.100
Ceres = 414,001,000 (changed from 413,690,604 just after The Dawn mission)
Jupiter = 778,547,200
Saturn = 1,433,449,370
Uranus = 2,876,679,082
Neptune = 4,503,443,661
Pluto = 5,874,000,000
So now when I say that the distance to Venus (semi major axis) from the Sun is 1.8686 that of Mercury I am simply saying that Mercury's distance will divide into Venus' distance 1.8686 times
108,208,930
----------------- = 1.868601367
57,909,050
Now is there anyone who cares to disputes this ?
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Definition of ratio
1a : the indicated quotient of two mathematical expressions
b : the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things : proportion
2 : the expression of the relative values of gold and silver as determined by a country's currency laws
Actually I think I will stop here and do a webpage.
Stay tuned ...
db
"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db
