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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM debunking needed)
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- References: <1jkl4lINN89t@duca.hi.com> <B2iqXB5w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:33:21 GMT
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- In article <B2iqXB5w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- >wright@duca.hi.com (David Wright) writes:
- >
- : > The Vedic account of our planetary system is already researched,
- : > concluded, and perfect. The _Vedas_ state that the moon is 800,000
- : > miles _farther_ from earth than the sun.
- >
- >Actually, the Vedas state that the Moon is 800,000 miles HIGHER than the
- >Sun, in the plane of the Bhu-mandala system, not that it is farther away
- >in terms of linear distance.
-
- What's the "Bhu-mandala system"?
-
- And is the Moon _closer_ in linear distance, or isn't it?
-
- : This is just too beautiful. One wonders just how the Vedas account
- : for solar eclipses.
-
- >Eclipses are explained as the result of the planet Rahu passing
- >between the sun and the earth, or the moon and the earth. In modern
- >astronomy, the planet Rahu is identified as the moon's ascending node,
- >which is indeed in line with the sun-moon-earth system during an
- >eclipse.
-
- There is no such thing as a planet separate from the Moon that
- causes eclipses. Either the Moon covers up the Sun or the Earth shades
- the Moon. This happens when the Moon is near its line of nodes, where
- its orbit plane intersects the Earth's orbit plane (the ecliptic). At
- other times, the Moon's shadow misses the Earth and the Moon misses
- the Earth's shadow, as the case may be.
-
- Solar Eclipse:
-
- Sun Moon Earth
-
- Lunar Eclipse:
-
- Sun Earth Moon
-
- That is why solar eclipses occur only during New Moon and
- lunar eclipses only during Full Moon. What more can anyone ask for?
- --
- /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
- /lip@s1.gov
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