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Meta Research Bulletin ©2007
[1] T.
Van Flandern (2007), “The challenge of the exploded planet hypothesis”, Int’l.J.Astrobio.
(accepted; in process); preprint at http://metaresearch.org/publications/bulletin/2006issues/1215/Mrb06d.asp.
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[2] T.
Van Flandern (1999), Dark Matter, Missing
Planets and New Comets, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, chapters 19 &
25; http://metaresearch.org/solar%20system/origins/original-solar-system.asp.
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[3] T.
Van Flandern (1999), op. cit.,
chapter 6.
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[4] T.
Van Flandern (1999), op.cit, chapters
7 & 23; http://metaresearch.org/solar%20system/eph/ephrevised/ephrevised.asp;
http://metaresearch.org/solar%20system/eph/eph2000.asp.
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[5] T.
Van Flandern, “New evidence for artificiality at Cydonia on Mars”, http://metaresearch.org/solar%20system/cydonia/mrb_cydonia/new-evidence.asp.
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[6] T.
Van Flandern, M. Carlotto, H. Crater, J. Erjavec, L. Fleming, and J.P.
Levasseur (2001), “Evidence of planetary artifacts”, Infinite Energy 7#40:23-31; also at http://spsr.utsi.edu/,
link to “Peer-reviewed journal publications and other recent articles”.
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[7] T.C.
Van Flandern, E.F. Tedesco & R.P. Binzel (1979), “Satellites of Asteroids”,
in Asteroids, T. Gehrels, ed.,
443-465. Contains the relevant tidal evolution timescale formulas.
[8] This tidal stress scenario also suggests that, of
all the bodies remaining in our solar system, Jupiter’s moon Io is the best
candidate for a future explosion because it is undergoing the greatest internal
tidal stresses now. Moreover, the radial
tidal forces [3] raised by Io on Jupiter are continuing to bring Io
closer to Jupiter; and Jupiter is continuing to accrete asteroids and comets,
slowly increasing its mass. The combined effect might lead to the eventual
explosion of Io on a presumed time scale of many millions of years.
[9] The cross-product of vectors 
and 
is 
. The dot product is 
.
[10] Many non-significant figures are carried in this
table to test program coding and to avoid loss of precision through round-off
errors when many different scenarios are tried.
[11] There is no good reason why Planet V might not
have had a significant tilt of its rotation axis. Then the plane of the moons
would have been Planet V’s equatorial plane, not the ecliptic plane. This would
have ultimately caused the present fairly large orbital inclination of Mars’s
solar orbit, a new constraint with a new parameter to accommodate it. But other
than for allowing us to infer the tilt of the rotation axis of Planet V, this
complication seemed to contribute little to the scenario being tested here
because the inclination calculations have minimal interaction with the planar
calculations. So we ignore the third dimension here.
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[12] ] http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/cydonia/asom/pressconf_nyc.asp.
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